Women's power and roles as portrayed in visual images of women in the arts and mass media / edited by Valerie Malhotra Bentz and Philip E.F. Mayes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bentz, Valerie Malhotra, 1942-

Mayes, Philip E. F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in mass media.

Women in art.

Visual communication.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

xv, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lewiston, NY : E. Mellen Press, [1993]

Contents:

How women look : critiques of visual images / by Valerie Malhotra Bentz

A visual essay on women in Vogue, 1940-1990 / by Mary White Stewart and Tamera Bryant

She works hard for the money / Kathleen Brady

Women as slaves in gold chains / Mary Jo Deegan

Romantic expectations : a critical dramaturgy of black and white romance magazines / Michael R. Ball

Images of women in alternative fotonovelas in the United States / Cornelia Butler Flores

Woman as cat monster : Sax Rohmer and the Green eyes of Bast / Mary Jo Deegan

Medieval madonnas and modern motherhood / Judith Huggins Balfe

Harriet Hosmer, the "white, marmorean flock," and 19th century sculpture / Nancy A. Brooks

Acts of agression, acts of obsession : a feminist perspective on Willem de Kooning's woman series, 1930-1970 by Cathie Mathews

Creating images in dance : works of Hanstein and Ziaks / by Valerie Malhotra Bentz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0773493298

OCLC:

28549772