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Taking a hard look : gender and visual culture /

"It is the aim of this collection of essays to take a hard look at gender and visual culture. Gender and visual culture traverse in quite and often fascinating ways. On the one hand, gender subject fields. As such, gender contributes to establishing a much-needed theoretical and functional plat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Du Preez, Amanda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Exploring visual culture and gender through discursive performative visual art practices / Kathryn Grushka
  • Into the breach : Christine Dixie's Birthing Tray-Honey / Brenda Schmahmann
  • Oedipus the fallen one / Nadira Omarjee
  • Saints and sinners : re-evaluating gendered power bases entrenched by religious imagery / Karen von Veh
  • Something "new" that's been here all along? The Afropolitan bridal couple in the South African bridal magazine / Benita de Robillard
  • From bedroom to boardroom : corporate culture in two South African gloss men's magazines / Stella Viljoen
  • Postcards of the comic other and touristic representation / Jeanne van Eeden
  • Looking back, poolside : disruption, (post)-apartheid white female subjectivity and returning the gaze / Jennifer Schmidt
  • Tentative reflections on (gendered) subjectivities--liminality, refusal and post-apartheid law / Karin van Marle
  • The violence of the eye : the gendered gaze in ublic space / Tamlyn Jane Monson
  • The male gaze and the momoerotic aesthetics of Tamil film : the gendering of visual culture in South India / Martyn Rogers
  • Tarzan : the man we love to hate / Pieter Swanepoel
  • For real : hysteria, transsexuality and femininity-as-masquerade / Amanda du Preez.