Transnational Perspectives on Feminism and Art, 1960-1985

Jen Kennedy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Art Conservation at Queen's University. Trista E. Mallory is a mother and Independent Scholar. Angelique Szymanek is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Architecture at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Introduction: Locating and Dislocating Feminisms (Jen Kennedy, Trista E. Mallory, and Angelique Szymanek); Part 1: Constructing; 1. Reviewing a 1960s Mi’kmaq Ribbon Skirt: Reclamation, Resilience, Resistance (Lisa Binkley); 2. Winding Up to Be Unfurled: Art History as Casa Espiral (Sarah Lookofsky); 3. Insubordinate Bodies: Staging Protest and Torture in Regina Vater’s 1973 Nós Performance (Emily Citino); 4. Nil Yalter’s Topak Ev: The Nomadic Tent Between "Worlds" (Ceren Ozpinar); Part 2: Mediating; 5. Creation Stories: Australian Arts Feminism (Jacqueline Millner and Catorina Moore); 6. Tseng Kwong Chi: 1979 and the Liminal Trans of Racial and Sexual Politics (Jane Chin Davidson); 7. Shades of Discrimination: The Emergence of Feminism in Apartheid South Africa (Brenda Schmahmann); Part 3: Performing; 8. Against the Body: Interpreting Ana Mendieta (Julia Bryan-Wilson); 9. Jung Kang-Ja: A Pioneer of Korean Experimental Art of the 1960s and 1970s (Phil Lee); 10. "Really African, and Really Kabuki Too": Afro-Asian Possibility in the Work of Senga Nengudi (Ellen Y. Tani); 11. Kirsten Justesen: The Body as a Feminist and Artistic Tool (Tania Ørum)