Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America 9780773576711

Performance art was finally recognized as an art form in its own right in the 1970s. In Radical Gestures Jayne Wark situ

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Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America
 9780773576711

Table of contents :
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1 Art, Politics, and Feminism in the 1960s
2 The Origins of Feminist Art
3 Cultural Feminism: The Essence of Difference
4 Stories to Tell: Autobiography and Narrative
5 Roles and Transformations
6 Embodiment and Representation
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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