Gender Studies
Gender Studies
1st Edition
Published on 18. September 2014
Book
Hardback
80 pages
978-3-86930-802-9 (ISBN)
Description
Twenty years after Modern Lovers, a body of work on androgyny
and transgender created when AIDS was at its peak, Bettina Rheims now presents Gender Studies. In the light of current controversial debates on gender theory, Rheims's models display remarkable courage by questioning, modifying and celebrating their identities.
and transgender created when AIDS was at its peak, Bettina Rheims now presents Gender Studies. In the light of current controversial debates on gender theory, Rheims's models display remarkable courage by questioning, modifying and celebrating their identities.
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Person
Bettina Rheims was born in Paris in 1952 and began photographing in the early 1980s. Since her first body of work, "Female Trouble" (1980-89), Rheims has dedicated herself to the exploration of women, famous and not, and marginalized people. Steidl published Rheims's Shanghai in 2004.