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[1]   Genres of expression favored by female authors in Japan such as science fiction and manga (graphic novel) have long been classified as subcategories of so-called subculture with labels like girls’ manga and female sci-fi writing.

The lesbian is the heroine of modernism.– Walter Benjamin (90)[1]   In scholarly examinations of the period prior to the First World War, Marie Laurencin’s work has been viewed almost exclusively as a footnote to early twentieth-century

[1]   BERELOWITZ: In your book you discuss the embodiment of gender in American art of the first half of the 20th century and trace an unfolding and connected discourse in American modernism from the early days of the Stieglitz circle

[1]   The artists who emerged as the Abstract Expressionists in the 1940s were as a group notoriously macho and homophobic. For Fritz Bultman (1919-85), a young painter associated with this first generation of the New York School, such

[1]   The objective of this study is to articulate a revisionary reading of Frida Kahlo's "What the Water Has Given Me" ["Lo que el agua me ha dado"1] (1938, Fig. 1), a reading that will argue for the painting's central importance for an

[1]   Ever since the showing of The Dinner Party in the late 1970s, exhibits of Judy Chicago’s artwork have repeatedly elicited vehement public debate. Her defenders laud her as a groundbreaking feminist whose methods and works challenge

[1]   It is possible now to speak of a triumph for women in the register of philosophical aesthetics, especially since this word identifies precisely what aesthetic thought has always denied them. We are well aware that Western philosophy

[1]   Over the past two decades, British artists Gilbert and George have made enormous and colorful photographic art works depicting nude or semi-nude men alongside multiple self-portraits. Large pictographs from the 1980s show vivid

"The physical body symbolically reproduces theanxieties of the social body."-Mary Douglas[1]   The tattooed seaman. The image is so deeply embedded in the collective American psyche that the men can hardly be separated from the ink. The

[1]   When I graduated from college I was barely twenty and unused to living on my own in the world. A foundation was willing to pay me to continue reading books, always a great pleasure for me, so I set off for graduate school at the