Expanding the Parameters of Feminist Artivism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction: Artists for Political Engagement: A Table for Women and Gender Non-conforming Artists

      • Kyunghee Pyun

      Pages 3-26

3. Part II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Native Feminisms and Contemporary Art: Indigeneity, Gender, and Diné Resurgence in the Work of Natani Notah and Jolene Nenibah Yazzie

      • Elizabeth S. Hawley

      Pages 29-49

   3. Disrupting the Silence: Australian Aboriginal Art as a Political Act

      • Fiona Foley

      Pages 51-64

4. Part III

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. Spanking Confucius: The Feminist Protest Art of Kang-ja Jung

      • Sooran Choi

      Pages 67-85

   3. From Non-conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the 1970s to Today

      • Natalia Kolodzei

      Pages 87-107

   4. The Personal and the Political in Liminal Space: A Conversation Between Sandy Lane and Joo Yeon Woo Addressing Artivism in the Korean DMZ

      • Sandy Lane, Joo Yeon Woo

      Pages 109-128

   5. From South Africa to Afghanistan and America: An Exploration of Female Street Artists and the Socially Disruptive Nature of Their Work

      • Deborah Saleeby-Mulligan

      Pages 129-142

5. Part IV

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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   2. Yong Soon Min’s Defining Moments: Gendered Space of Decolonization in the Pacific

      • Soojung Hyun

      Pages 145-165

   3. Sited Nomadism from the Atlantic to West Africa: Addoley Dzegede

      • Ila Nicole Sheren

      Pages 167-184

   4. Alterity in Europe—Occupying Spaces as Feminist Strategy in (Post)Migration Aesthetics: A Conversation

      • Parastou Forouhar, Cathrine Bublatzky

      Pages 185-203

   5. Maria Jose Arjona, Into the Woods

      • Maria Jose Arjona, Jennifer Burris

      Pages 205-223

6. Part V

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225

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   2. Blurring Lines/Breaking Barriers: Harlem and Beyond, the Career of International Photographer Ming Smith

      • Gillian Hannum

      Pages 227-248

   3. Queer Craft and Radical Cuts: Tradition, Transgenderism, and the Malay-Muslim Body in the Work of Anne Samat

      • Louis Ho

      Pages 249-265

   4. When You’ve Never Seen a Lion: Halo Rossetti on Visually Representing the Intricacies of Queer and Trans Life

      • Halo Rossetti

      Pages 267-286

This book explores the work and careers of women, trans, and third-gender artists engaged in political activism. While some artists negotiated their own political status in their indigenous communities, others responded to global issues of military dictatorship, racial discrimination, or masculine privilege in regions other than their own. Women, trans, and third-gender artists continue to highlight and challenge the disturbing legacies of colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, communism, and other political ideologies that are correlated with patriarchy, primogeniture, sexism, or misogyny. The book argues that solidarity among such artists remains valuable and empowering for those who still seek legitimate recognition in art schools, cultural institutions, and the history curriculum.

• Women artists
• gender non-conforming artists
• Activism
• Art and activism
• diasporic women artists
• Native Feminisms
• Contemporary art

“This collection engages with vital, separate yet interrelated themes of feminism, activism, and art praxis. It revisits feminist theorizing to combine a critical understanding of the past with present struggles around a more capacious notion of gender, speaking to a broad spectrum of scholars and practitioners.” (Monica Juneja, Professor of Global Art History, Heidelberg University)

“This important book complicates and expands the feminist discourse on political engagement. The project becomes even more compelling with the significant inclusion of gender non-conforming, non-binary, and trans artists whose marginalization fueled an activism, or artivism as the editors write, that raises provocative questions which need to be aired. With its mixture of diverse voices addressing a range of issues from colonialism to race and gender identity, this anthology will be invaluable for scholars and students alike.” (Mona Hadler, Professor at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA) 

• Manhattanville College, Purchase, USA

  Gillian Hannum

• Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, New York, USA

  Kyunghee Pyun

Gillian Hannum is Professor Emerita of Visual Studies and Art History at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, where she served on the faculty from 1987 to 2021.  A photographic historian with M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from The Pennsylvania State University, she has published on photographic topics in the Journal of the Royal Photographic Society, History of Photography, and Nineteenth Century, has contributed to several books and exhibition catalogs, and has presented papers or chaired panels at a number of conferences.  

Kyunghee Pyun is Associate Professor of History of Art at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. She wrote Fashion, Identity, Power in Modern Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and will publish School Uniforms in East Asia: Fashioning Statehood and Self in 2022. As an independent curator, she has collaborated with contemporary artists for exhibitions such as Violated Bodies: New Languages for Justice and Humanity. Pyun co-edited Interpreting Modernism in Korean Art: Fluidity and Fragmentation (Routledge, 2021) and American Art in Asia: Artistic Praxis and Theoretical Divergence (Routledge, 2022).