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Introduction: Feminism and Art in Political Space

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This introductory chapter outlines the aims and objectives of the book, elaborates on the concept of feminist art in the literature, and sets out the context from which to argue how the term has been conceptualised in art history and has been used across different geographies in relation to feminist movements in the Europe and Turkey. It thus provides a full account of how feminist art started to occupy contested political and public spaces. We also present the intellectual arch of the book drawing on the feminist philosophy theories of public sphere, epistemology, and aesthetics to offer a unique and contextual reading that will inform the following chapters.

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    Elif Dastarlı

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Dastarlı, E., Cin, F.M. (2023). Introduction: Feminism and Art in Political Space. In: Feminist Art in Resistance. Sociology of the Arts . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17638-8_1

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