Gestures : a body of work / edited by Alice Butler, Nell Osborne, and Hilary White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butler, Alice.

Contributor:

Osborne, Nell.

White, Hilary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gesture.

Gesture in art.

Gesture in literature.

Human body--Political aspects.

Human body.

Feminism and art.

Feminism and literature.

Feminist aesthetics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations; digital file(s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Biography/History:

Alice Butler is Tutor (Research) in the School of Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art.

Nell Osborne is an independent scholar and artist.

Hilary White is an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University.

Summary:

This cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to gesture offers new explorations of how gesture/s and feminism/s have animated one another in feminist and interdisciplinary artistic practice from the 1960s onwards.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

I Scrawl

1 The intelligent hand

2 Without word without voice blind gesture

3 ‘Language, of course, being gesture’

4 Writing dreaming drawing

II Caress

5 Perversions at her adolescent fingertips, or, Francesca Woodman’s autoerotic attentions

6 The massage is the medium

7 Et in arcadia xerox

III Mutter

8 My chimeras

9 Speaking silence

10 Mamaiaith

11 Cliché is the sediment of sentiment that collects in my ear

12 ‘The strength of the gesture to move like a poem’

IV Scratch

13 My skin is a riot

14 Cutting into unmarked pleasures

15 Learning from silent teachers

16 Returning to the scene of hurt

V Reach

17 Gestures for feminist transmissions

18 Between the departures and arrivals

19 Feminism’s un/common rituals

20 ‘I want a literature that is not made from literature’

VI Dialogues on gesture

21 ‘Flight [Gestures] in a Galaxy of Centres’

22 So many social things happen with a bent head

23 In excess of the one, two

24 Gesture, a build

Afterword

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781526168481

1526168480

9781526168474

1526168472

OCLC:

1492956401