Description
During the latter part of the nineteenth century and the
early decades of the twentieth, a range of iconic female forms emerged
to dominate the global pictorial landscape. Female athletes and
adventurers, chorine stars, flappers, garconnes, Modern Girls, neue
Frauen, suffragettes, and trampky were all facets of the
dazzling and urbane New Woman who came to epitomize modern femininity in
photographs and on film. This construct existed as a set of abstract
ideals, even as it varied when translated across national contexts and
through a range of key historical moments including First Wave feminism,
colonialism, the First and Second World Wars, political revolutions, and
the rise of modernism. This panel, moderated by art historian Linda Nochlin, examines the
nuances of visual representations of this transgressive and
border-crossing figure from her inception in the later nineteenth
century to her full development in the interwar period and beyond.
Panelists include Elizabeth Otto, Clare Rogan, Vanessa Rocco, and Kristine Harris.
In this panel, young feminist activists discuss their
areas of interest, what they see as the major challenges for feminist
movements, how organizing today compares to that by previous
generations, intersections between feminism and other approaches to
social justice, and how to build coalitions...
Published 01/30/13
Sonia Pierre (1963-2011), mobilized communities in the
Dominican Republic to advocate for citizenship and human rights for
Dominicans of Haitian descent. As the director of Movimiento de Mujeres
Dominico-Haitiana (MUDHA), she used legal challenges in domestic and
international courts to defend...
Published 12/06/12