Breaking the Bronze Ceiling

Women, Memory, and Public Space

Valentina Rozas-Krause, Andrew M. Shanken (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2024
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5315-0639-1 (ISBN)

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Breaking the Bronze Ceiling comprehensively assesses the portrayal of women in public art and offers a fervent plea to address the severe underrepresentation of women in memorials.

Breaking the Bronze Ceiling uncovers a glaring omission in our global memorial landscape—the conspicuous absence of women. Exploring this neglected narrative, the book emerges as the foremost guide to women's memorialization across diverse cultures and ages. As global memorials come under intense examination, with metropolises vying for a more inclusive recognition of female contributions, this book stands at the forefront of contemporary discussion.

The book’s thought-provoking essays artfully traverse the complex terrains of gender portrayal, urban tales, ancestral practices, and grassroots activism—all anchored in the bedrock of cultural remembrance. Rich in the range of cases discussed, the book sifts through multifaceted representations of women, from Marians to Liberties, to handmaidens, to particular historical women.

Breaking the Bronze Ceiling offers a panoramic view of worldwide memorials, critically analyzing grandiose tributes while also honoring subtle gestures—be it evocative plaques, inspiring namesakes, or dynamic demonstrations. The book will be of interest to historians of art and architecture, as well as to activists, governmental bodies, urban planners, and NGOs committed to regional history and memory.

More than a mere compilation, Breaking the Bronze Ceiling epitomizes a movement. The book comprehensively assesses the portrayal of women in public art and offers a fervent plea to address the severe underrepresentation of women in memorials.

Contributors: Carolina Aguilera, Manuela Badilla, Daniel E. Coslett, Erika Doss, Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy, Daniel Herwitz, Katherine Hite, Lauren Kroiz, Ana María León, Fernando Luis Martínez Nespral, Pía Montealegre, Sierra Rooney, Daniela Sandler, Kirk Savage, Susan Slyomovics, Marita Sturken, Amanda Su, Dell Upton, Nathaniel Robert Walker, and Mechtild Widrich

Valentina Rozas-Krause (Edited By) Valentina Rozas-Krause is Assistant Professor in Design and Architecture at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile and Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow (2023–24). She is the author of Ni Tan Elefante, Ni Tan Blanco (Ril, 2014) and the coedited volume Disputar la Ciudad (Bifurcaciones, 2018). These books join peer-reviewed articles in History & Memory, e-flux, Latin American Perspectives, Memory Studies, Anos 90, ARQ, Revista 180, Cuadernos de Antropología Social, and Bifurcaciones alongside chapters in Golpes a la Memoria (Tege, 2019) and Neocolonialism and Built Heritage (Routledge, 2020). Andrew M. Shanken (Edited By) Andrew Shanken is Professor of Architectural History and the Director of American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of 194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Homefront (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) and The Everyday Life of Memorials (Zone Books, 2022).

List of Figures | ix

Introduction

Valentina Rozas-Krause and Andrew M. Shanken | 1

Part I: Patronized Women

1. Innocence and Guilt: Memorializing a Gender Tragedy in Nineteenth-Century Santiago de Chile

Pía Montealegre | 19

2. George Eliot at Nuneaton and Trans Monumentality

Amanda Su | 41

Toppling Pocahontas

Kirk Savage | 69

Monument to the Chilean Women Victims of Political Repression

Carolina Aguilera and Manuela Badilla Rajevic | 73

Part II: Public Women

3. White Marble and White Women: Adelaide Johnson’s Portrait Monument

Lauren Kroiz | 79

4. “We Shall Beg No More”: Helen Keller, Politics, and Commemorations in the National Statuary Hall

Sierra Rooney | 101

Monument to Sojourner Truth

Katherine Hite | 118

Fearless Girl, New York City

Marita Sturken | 122

Monument to the Empress Maria-Theresia, Vienna, Austria

Mechtild Widrich | 126

Part III: Women Warriors

5. The Myth of the Passive Woman in Confederate Monuments

Nathaniel Robert Walker | 133

6. Firearms, Flowers, and Barricades: Women’s Reinscriptions in the Mexican Landscape of Monuments

Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy | 158

Memorial to the South Carolina Women of the Confederacy

(Frederick Wellington Ruckstuhl, 1909–1912), Columbia, South Carolina

Dell Upton | 180

Memorial to the Black Mothers of the Periphery Fighting against State Terrorism, Rio de Janeiro

Daniela Sandler | 189

Mujeres Creando, Plaza Chola Globalizada, La Paz, Bolivia

Ana María León | 193

Part IV: Allegorical Women

7. The Colonial Marianne: Representing Liberté and France in Occupied North Africa

Daniel E. Coslett | 201

8. Female Winged Victory Statues in French Algeria

Susan Slyomovics | 230

The Argentine Marianne

Fernando Luis Martínez Nespral | 253

I Am Queen Mary, Copenhagen

Erika Doss | 257

Patience on a Monument: A History Painting

Daniel Herwitz | 261

List of Contributors | 265

Index | 271

Erscheinungsdatum	09.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
Co-Autor	Carolina Aguilera, Manuela Badilla Rajevic, Daniel E. Coslett
Zusatzinfo	71 b/w illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-5315-0639-9 / 1531506399
ISBN-13	978-1-5315-0639-1 / 9781531506391
Zustand	Neuware