Published by De Gruyter

Oyster

Feminist and Queer Approaches to Arts, Cultures, and Genders

Edited by: Hongwei Bao, Susanne Huber and Änne Söll

ISSN: 2940-7265

e-ISSN 2940-7273

Overview
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This book series aims at providing a platform for original and innovative scholarly research on questions of gender and sexuality in the fields of diversified arts and globalized cultures. The contributors approach their subjects within frameworks of feminist and queer thought, theories, and practice. At the same time, the research monographs and edited collections create a forum where complex disciplinary histories and methodologies entangled with powerful epistemologies can be addressed. As part of a broader critical discourse, the series explores the role of art in articulating queer and feminist politics globally in both historical and contemporary contexts and across genres, media, and audiences. Drawing inspiration from the gender fluid oyster, this book series hopes to foster new perspectives of a transnational, decolonizing, intersectional, transversal and fantastic world of arts, cultures and genders.

Author / Editor information

Hongwei Bao, University of Nottingham, UK; Susanne Huber, University of Bremen; Änne Söll, Ruhr University Bochum

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Book Ahead of Publication 2025

It Hurts!

Violence against Women in Art and Psychoanalysis

Elana Shapira, Daniela Finzi

In the series Edition Angewandte

Volume 5 in this series

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Psychoanalysis, the study of the unconscious, has provided artists in the 20th and 21st centuries with both a visual language and valuable psychological tools to address the social phenomenon of violence against women. The volume presents groundbreaking research on various representations of gender-based violence in art. The book aims to examine the cultural constructions embedded in this phenomenon and to explore the different strategies that have been developed on different continents to counteract it. The artists featured are Oskar Kokoschka, María Izquierdo, Grete Stern, Dorothea Tanning, Ana Mendieta, Kiki Kogelnik, Marina Abramović, Soli Kiani, Sigalit Landau, and Hava Raucher, as well as the filmmaker Ruth Beckermann and the philosopher Hélène Cixous.

ISBN:: 9783111336077
ISBN:: 9783111335964
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Arts, general
Subject:: Art Theory
Subject:: Periods
Subject:: 21st Century
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociology of Gender and the Body
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Posthumane Männlichkeiten

Maskuline Cyborgs und queere Körper in der Kunst seit 1990

Maike Hoffmeister

Volume 2 in this series

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The masculine machine-man, associated with notions of a virile, hyper-muscular male body since the 1980s, is a thing of the past in contemporary art; the author shows this on the basis of representations of male, masculine and queer bodies since the 1990s. While the cyborg figure generally refers either to a militaristic, self-contained masculinity or to a feminine, fluid resolution, an analysis of male-technological bodies in contemporary art is still overdue. The author locates the bodies depicted in the debates on a post-human dissolution of body and gender, while enquiring how these are interwoven with current discussions on new concepts of masculinity and gender.

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783689240073
ISBN:: 9783689240073
ISBN:: 9783689241292
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Arts, general
Subject:: Genres
Subject:: Sculpture
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Gender
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociology of Gender and the Body
Publisher:: dG Arts

Book 2024

Under Construction

Kunst, Männlichkeiten und Queerness seit 1970

Änne Söll, Maike Wagner, Katharina Boje

Volume 1 in this series

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This publication is dedicated to the changes in masculinity/ies that visual artists have been addressing since the 1970s and are currently working on more than ever. Contributions from art and other cultural studies illuminate the diverse artistic processes by which the idea of masculinity as a seemingly universal, irrefutable constant is being successively replaced by the assumption of a plurality of masculinities. The volume comprises four sections: Postphallic Masculinity, Queering Masculinities, Optimised Masculinity/ies and Vulnerability. Based on the premise that male bodies do not have an intrinsic essence but are socially constructed and thus transformable, visions of future masculinity(ies) are discussed and concretised.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111347325
ISBN:: 9783111347325
ISBN:: 9783110991093
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Arts, general
Subject:: Art Theory
Subject:: Periods
Subject:: 21st Century
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Gender
Publisher:: De Gruyter