"Contemporary Transnational Feminist Visual Activism And Gender-Based Violence

This book illuminates arts activist interventions that raise consciousness and advocacy for women’s right to a life free from violence. In a context where gender-based violence (GBV) has continued to intensify across the globe the international range of essays focuses on violations of bodily integrity and autonomy reproductive domestic and sexual violence femicide and feminicide. Comparing and interrogating arts activist strategies and visual methods the book also explores tactics employed by arts activists attentive to effects and lived experiences of GBV and imagining potential solutions founded in feminist thinking to change behaviours and raise awareness generating systemic change. The case studies of feminist transnational contemporary arts activism include examples from Australia Austria Brazil Canada Croatia Ghana Guatemala Hong Kong Iraq Japan Kuwait Mexico Nepal Poland South Africa and the United States. Arts engaged include textile work crafts-making performance art clay work protest art and documentary art indicating the breadth and richness of the work of feminist political artists. At a time when according to the UN Women’s estimates almost one in three women has been subjected to violence it is critical to understand how feminist politics catalyses social cultural and political changes. This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history women’s studies gender studies and visual culture. |Contemporary Transnational Feminist Visual Activism and Gender-Based Violence