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"Who is "the girl"? Look to movies, TV shows, magazines, and ads and the message is both clear and not: she is a sexed-up sidekick, a princess waiting to be saved, a morally infallible angel with no opinions of her own. She's whatever the hero needs her to be in order to become himself. She's an abstraction, an ideal, a standard, a mercurial phantom. In You Play the Girl, Chocano blends formative personal stories with insightful and emotionally powerful analysis. Moving from Bugs Bunny to Playboy Bunnies, Flashdance to Frozen, the progressive '70s through the backlash '80s, the glib '90s, and the pornified aughts--and at stops in between--she explains how growing up in the shadow of "the girl" taught her to think about herself and the world and what it means to raise a daughter in the face of these contorted reflections. In the tradition of Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, and Susan Sontag, Chocano brilliantly shows that our identities are more fluid than we think, and certainly more complex than anything we see on any kind of screen."--Page 4 of cover.

La place et le rôle des femmes dans l'art et dans le spectacle vivant, entre 1912 et 2012, aux lisières de la performance et de la danse. A l'heure des re-enactements et autres remakes des performances historiques, il semblait important de s'interroger sur la place des femmes dans les avant-gardes des années 1910-1970. Quel regard portons-nous, aujourd'hui, sur les pionnières qui ont profondément modifié la danse et la performance, en Europe et aux Etats-Unis ? Réunis pour la première fois, des historiens, des philosophes, des danseurs et deux chorégraphes ont accepté de faire le point sur leurs recherches. Par-delà les catégories artistiques (danse, performance, action, pantomime, théâtre, music-hall...) et les clivages (théorie / pratique ; forme / fond), ce livre est une invitation à partager leurs questionnements sur le spectacle vivant « au féminin », ses archives et ses références. Femmes, attitudes performatives rassemble dix contributions, une « interview performative » de La Ribot et un entretien sur La Part du rite de Latifa Laâbissi et Isabelle Launay.

In The Black Body in Ecstasy, Jennifer C. Nash rewrites black feminism's theory of representation. Her analysis moves beyond black feminism's preoccupation with injury and recovery to consider how racial fictions can create a space of agency and even pleasure for black female subjects. Nash's innovative readings of hardcore pornographic films from the 1970s and 1980s develop a new method of analyzing racialized pornography that focuses on black women's pleasures in blackness: delights in toying with and subverting blackness, moments of racialized excitement, deliberate enactments of hyperbolic blackness, and humorous performances of blackness that poke fun at the fantastical project of race. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, critical race theory, and media studies, Nash creates a new black feminist interpretative practice, one attentive to the messy contradictions—between delight and discomfort, between desire and degradation—at the heart of black pleasures.

C'est à partir de l'opération de Christine Jorgensen en 1952 au Danemark, que le fait qu'un homme puisse devenir une femme, après une intervention chirurgicale, entre dans l'esprit du grand public en raison de sa très forte médiatisation. Les identités trans' sont alors loin de s'affirmer comme telles. Il faudra attendre la fin des années 80 pour assister à l'émergence d'une visibilité prenant une forme revendicative. Entre les deux, la psychiatrisation de l'identité. Grâce à l'Internet, les transidentités ne sont plus isolées les unes des autres et ne rejouent plus la dramatique du changement de sexe comme une individuelle et éternelle première fois. Une mémoire s'élabore, se fixe et génère une culture. Leurs relations à l'information et l'identitaire questionnent tout autant. Cette recherche considère le groupe transidentitaire comme un monde social s'institutionnalisant dans un esprit multidisciplinaire à la lumière des sciences de l'information et de la communication, de la psychosociologie, de la théorie de l'engagement, de l'ethnométhodologie, de la sociologie de la traduction et de la communication instituante. L'analyse du traitement télévisuel de la transidentité, considérée comme expression la plus singulière de l'identité, est-elle susceptible de donner des outils de lectures sur la construction des normes de genre au-delà de la transidentité ?

Wark brings together a wide range of artists, including Lisa Steele, Martha Rosler, Lynda Benglis, Gillian Collyer, Margaret Dragu, and Sylvie Tourangeau, and provides detailed readings and viewings of individual pieces, many of which have not been studied in detail before. She reassesses assumptions about the generational and thematic characteristics of feminist art, placing feminist performance within the wider context of minimalism, conceptualism, land art, and happenings

This book explores the new performativity in art theory and practice, examining ways of rethinking interpretive processes in visual culture. Since the 1960s, visual art practices - from body art to minimalism - have taken contemporary art outside the museum and gallery; by embracing theatricality and performance and exploding the boundaries set by traditional art criticism. The contributors argue that interpretation needs to be recognised as much more dynamic and contingent. Offering its own performance script, and embracing both canonical fine artists such as Manet, De Kooning and Jasper Johns, and performance artists such as Vito Acconci and Gunter Brus, this book offers radical re-readings of art works and points confidently towards new models for understanding art.

An examination of the social and cultural significance of body art by a major new voice. The past few years have seen an explosion of interest in body art, in which the artist's body is integral to the work of art. With the revoking of NEA funding for such artists as Karen Finley, Tim Miller, and others, public awareness and media coverage of body-oriented performances have increased. Yet the roots of body art extend to the 1960s and before. In this definitive book, Amelia Jones explores body art projects from the 1960s and 1970s and relates their impact to the work of body artists active today, providing a new conceptual framework for defining postmodernism in the visual arts. Jones begins with a discussion of the shifting intellectual terrain of the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on the work of Ana Mendieta. Moving to an examination of the reception of Jackson Pollock's "performative" acts of painting, she argues that Pollock is a pivotal figure between modernism and postmodernism. The book continues with explorations of Vito Acconci and Hannah Wilke, whose practices exemplify a new kind of performance that arose in the late 1960s, one that represents a dramatic shift in the conception of the artistic subject. Jones then surveys the work of a younger generation of artists -- including Laurie Anderson, Orlan, Maureen Connor, Lyle Ashton Harris, Laura Aguilar, and Bob Flanagan -- whose recent work integrates technology and issues of identity to continue to expand the critique begun in earlier body art projects. Embracing an exhilarating mix of methodologies and perspectives (including feminism, queer theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literary theory), this rigorous and elegantexamination of body art provides rich historical insight and essential context that rethinks the parameters of postmodern culture.

L'étude de la campagne de criminalisation de la pornographie au Canada, dans les années 1980, pose un défi au savoir conventionnel qui s'est développé, en sociologie et en criminologie, sur la réforme du droit. Ce savoir est l'argumentation selon laquelle les réformes, en dispersant le contrôle social, ne font que légitimer le système sans le modifier fondamentalement. Afin d'éviter l'essentialisme de ce savoir, j'ai utilisé une approche reflexive qui pense la relation entre la réforme du droit et le pouvoir comme à la fois contraignante et facilitante. L'établissement d'un lien entre la pornographie et la déviance sociale n'apparaît pas comme une construction sociale unifiée, mais comme un terrain contesté dans lequel se produisent des rapports de pouvoir complexes, et une multiplicité de stratégies de résistance. C'est dans ce sens que la réforme apparaît comme un mécanisme générateur des pratiques.

The history of Western art is saturated with images of the female body. Lynda Nead's The Female Nude was the first book to critically examine this phenomenon from a feminist perspective and ask: how and why did the female nude acquire this status? In a deft and engaging manner, Lynda Nead explores the ways in which acceptable and unacceptable images of the female body are produced, issues which have been reignited by current controversies around the patriarchy, objectification and pornography. Nead brilliantly illustrates the two opposing poles occupied by the female nude in the history of art; at one extreme the visual culmination of enlightenment aesthetics; at the other, spilling over into the degraded and the obscene. What both have in common, however, is the aim of containing the female body. Drawing on examples of art and artists from the classical period to the 1980s, The Female Nude paints a devastating picture of the depiction of the female body and remains as fresh and invigorating today as it was at the time of its first publication.