World Food Books

Woman 1975

1975, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by YWCA Australia / Melbourne

$290.00 - Out of stock

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Very scarce first and only edition of one of the great Australian photo-books of the 1970s. Woman 1975 was published as "a permanent record of the exhibition of photographs entitled Woman, which was the contribution made towards International Women's year, 1975, by the Young Women's Christian Association of Australia." A gorgeous and moving overview of womanhood in Australia in the 1970s through the images of countless Australian photographers of the period, including Carol Jerrems, Rennie Ellis, John Williams, Fiona Hall, Melanie Le Guay, Ingeborg Tyssen, Jacqueline Mitelman, Les Gray, Grace Lock, Reg Morrison, Phillip Quirk, Peter Tyndall, Howard Birnstihl, Juergen Hasenkopf, Richard Crawley and many more.

Very Good copy.

File under: Carol Jerrems Rennie Ellis John Williams Fiona Hall Melanie Le Guay Ingeborg Tyssen Jacqueline Mitelman Les Gray Grace Lock Reg Morrison Phillip Quirk Peter Tyndall Howard Birnstihl Juergen Hasenkopf Richard Crawley YWCA Australia / Melbourne Photography Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Feminism Australian Photography

Michiko Matsumoto
Women Come Alive

1978, Japanese
Softcover, 204 pages, 21 x 29.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Hanashi-no-Tokushu / Tokyo

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Exceptionally rare (signed!) 1978 first edition photobook by Michiko Matsumoto, one of post war Japan's leading photographers. As a young female photographer growing up in a period of turmoil, Matsumoto conveys the wonders of women to the viewer from the perspective of a woman. Women Come Alive is her rarest and greatest example of this. This wonderful book collects "seven years with women...", Matsumoto's front-line photographic records of the women's liberation movement in Japan in the 1970s and her "Sisters Across Borders" (New York, Paris, Los Angeles, London...), as well as portraits of female artists, activists and friends Yoko Ono, Maki Asakawa, Eiko Ishioka, Michiko Gorman, Mamako Yoneyama, Teruko Yoshitake, Tokiko Kato, Harumi Yamaguchi, Chinatsu Nakayama and others. A true time-capsule, this book visits the workshops, bookshops, marches, women's centres, lesbian bars, exhibitions, editorial offices, dances and studios of a pivotal time of great change. An incredible book of feminist protest and celebration. Virtually an impossible book to find, even without a signature from the artist! Highly recommended!!

Very Good copy in very good dust jacket. Signed in black ink and dated 1978.6.7 on title page.

File under: Yoko Ono Michiko Matsumoto Alicia Bay Laurel Hanashi-no-Tokushu / Tokyo Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Feminism Counterculture Signed Books

Heroines (New Edition)
by Kate Zambreno

2024, English
Softcover, 320 pages, 22.61 x 15.19 cm
Published by Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles

$38.00 - Out of stock

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"It's kind of a book of utterances ... it's beautiful and I love it."—Kristen Stewart

I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order-pretending an objectivity where there is nothing objective about the experience of confronting and engaging with and swooning over literature.

On the last day of December 2009, Kate Zambreno, then an unpublished writer, began a blog called "Frances Farmer Is My Sister," arising from her obsession with literary modernism and her recent transplantation to Akron, Ohio, where her partner held a university job. Widely reposted, Zambreno's blog became an outlet for her highly informed and passionate rants and melancholy portraits of the fates of the modernist "wives and mistresses," reclaiming the traditionally pathologized biographies of Vivienne Eliot, Jane Bowles, Jean Rhys, and Zelda Fitzgerald- writers and artists themselves who served as male writers' muses only to end their lives silenced, erased, and institutionalized. Over the course of two years, Frances Farmer Is My Sister helped create a community of writers and devised a new feminist discourse of writing in the margins and developing an alternative canon.

In Heroines, Zambreno extends the polemic begun on her blog into a dazzling, original work of literary scholarship. Combing theories that have dictated what literature should be and who is allowed to write it-she traces the genesis of a cultural template that consistently exiles feminine experience to the realm of the "minor," and diagnoses women for transgressing social bounds. "ANXIETY- When she experiences it, it's pathological," writes Zambreno. "When he does, it's existential." With Heroines, Zambreno provided a model for a newly subjectivized criticism, prefiguring many group biographies and forms of autotheory and hybrid memoirs that were to come in the years to follow.

A book that has become its own canon, Heroines was named one of the "50 Books that define the past 5 Years in Literature" by Flavorwire, an "Essential Feminist Manifesto" by Dazed, and one of the "50 Greatest Books by Women" in Buzzfeed.

File under: Kate Zambreno Jamie Hood Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles Theory / Essay Feminism Fiction / Poetry

Documenta 5
by Harald Szeemann

1972, German / English / French
Vinyl ring-binder (screen printed w. design by E. Ruscha), 650 pages +, 32 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by documenta / Kassel

$500.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce copy of the only edition of the most elaborately designed, and lowest circulated Documenta catalogue, conceived by curator Harald Szeemann to accompany the fifth edition of Documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition held in Kassel, Germany.

Subtitled "100 Days of Inquiry into Reality -- Today's Imagery," curated by the team of Harald Szeemann, Jean-Christophe Ammann and Arnold Bode, Documenta 5 followed a lineage of comprehensive shows documenting conceptually and minimally charged artworks curated by Szeemann including Live in Your Head (Kunsthalle Bern, 1969), and Happenings and Fluxus (Kunstverein, Köln), 1970. The largest, most expensive and most diverse of any exhibition anywhere, Documenta 5 was criticized in 1972 as being “bizarre…vulgar…sadistic” by art critic and essayist Hilton Kramer and “monstrous… overtly deranged” by art historian and art critic Barbara Rose, yet it still resonates today as one of the most important exhibitions in history. Featuring the works of over 170 artists and an equally expansive variety of materials and subjects drawn from popular cultural materials, architecture, science fiction, kitsch objects, film, advertising, children's art, etc. in addition to the more anticipated international survey of new painting and sculpture - Documenta 5 valiantly attempted to bridge the gap between art, culture, science and the broader society. This massive tome is housed in the iconic orange vinyl-covered, two-ring binder screen printed with the famous ant design by Edward Ruscha. The binder holds a tabbed index of illustrated artist's pages and associated texts and material, largely in German, but also many in English. All registers are present apart from the usual missing 19-25 which were not directly integrated into the catalogue and had to be ordered by the visitor separately to become their own contribution. This very complete copy also includes the additional 80 page, hole-punched Documenta 5 guide book, with floor plans, complete listing of exhibited artworks, list of exhibitions, bibliography, and many gallery, museum and other related advertisements. More than a catalogue, this publication is a piece of art history in itself.

Includes artists: Vito Acconci, Vincenzo Agnetti, Peter Alexander, John de Andrea, Giovanni Anselmo, Arbeitszeit, Archigram, Chuck Arnoldi, Art & Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Ashkin, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Georg Baselitz, Lothar Baumgarten, Robert Bechtle, Gottfried Bechtold, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Karl Oskar Blase, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Christian Boltanski, Claudio Bravo, George Brecht, K.P. Brehmer, Marcel Broodthaers, Stanley Brouwn, Günter Brus, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Michael Buthe, James Lee Byars, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Castelli, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Chuck Close, Tony Conrad, Ron Cooper, Bill Copley, Joseph Cornell, Robert Cottingham, Paul Cotton, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, David Deutsch, Jan Dibbets, Herbert Distel, Gino de Dominicis, Marcel Duchamp, John Dugger, Don Eddy, Franz Eggenschwiler, Ger van Elk, Richard Estes, Luciano Fabro, John C. Fernie, Robert Filliou, Jud Fine, Joel Fisher, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Hamish Fulton, Franz Gertsch, Gilbert & George, Ralph Goings, Hubert Gojowczyk, Dan Graham, Walter Grasskamp, Nancy Graves, Hans Haacke, Duane Hanson, Guy Harloff, Michael Harvey, Haus-Rucker-Co, Auguste Herbin, Eva Hesse, Rebecca Horn, Jean Olivier Hucleux, Douglas Huebler, Jörg Immendorff, Will Insley, Rolf Iseli, Ken Jacobs, Neil Jenney, Alfred Jensen, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Max G. Kaminski, Howard Kanovitz, Edward Kienholz, Imi Knoebel, Christof Kohlhofer, Jannis Kounellis, Tom Kovachevich, Piotr Kowalski, David Lamelas, Barry Le Va, Jean LeGac, Alfred Leslie, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Ingeborg Luscher, Inge Mahn, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Etienne Martin, Richard McLean, David Medalla, Fernando Melani, Jim Melchert, Mario Merz, Gustav Metzger, Bernd Minnich, Malcolm Morley, Ed Moses, Bruce Nauman, Hermann Nitsch, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Blinky Palermo, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, A.R. Penck, Giuseppe Penone, Vettor Pisani, Sigmar Polke, Stephen Posen, Markus Raetz, Arnulf Rainer, Gerhard Richter, Klaus Rinke, Dorothea Rockburne, Peter Roehr, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Ulrich Ruckriem, Robert Ryman, John Salt, Salvo, Lucas Samaras, Paul Sarkisian, Jean-Frederic Schnyder, Ben Schonzeit, Werner Schroeter, HA Schult, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Fritz Schwegler, Richard Serra, Paul Sharits, Allan Shields, Katharina Sieverding, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Klaus Staeck, Paul Staiger, Jorge Stever, Robert Strubin, Paul Thek, Wayne Thiebaud, Andre Thomkins, David Tremlett, Richard Tuttle, Ben Vautier, W + B Hein, Franz Erhard Walther, Robert Watts, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, John Wesley, H.C. Westermann, William Wiley, Rolf Winnewisser, Tom Wudl, Klaus Wyborny, La Monte Young, Peter Young, Gilberto Zorio.

Catalogue also includes Bob Projansky and Seth Siegelaub's "The Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement." This "Agreement form has been drafted by Bob Projansky, a New York lawyer, after my [Siegelaub] extensive discussions and correspondence with over 500 artists, dealers, lawyers, collectors, museum people, critics and other concerned people involved in the day-to-day workings of the international art world. The Agreement has been designed to remedy some generally acknowledged inequities in the art world, particularly artists' lack of control over the use of their work and participation in its economics after they no longer own it. The Agreement for has been written with special awareness of the current ordinary practices and economic realitites of the art world, particularly its private, cash and informal nature, with careful regard for the interests and motives of all concerned. It is expected to be the standard form for the transfer and sale of all contemporary art, and has been made as fair, simple and useful as possible. It can be used either as presented here or slightly altered to fit your specific situation. If the following information does not answer all your questions consult your attorney." -- from Agreement's cover. Copies of the contract are individually included in English, Germany, and French editions.

Very Good, complete (as issued) copy. Very minor wear.

File under: Vito Acconci Vincenzo Agnetti Peter Alexander John de Andrea Giovanni Anselmo Arbeitszeit Archigram Chuck Arnoldi Art & Language Richard Artschwager Michael Ashkin John Baldessari Robert Barry Georg Baselitz Lothar Baumgarten Robert Bechtle Gottfried Bechtold Joseph Beuys Karl Oskar Blase Mel Bochner Alighiero Boetti Christian Boltanski Claudio Bravo George Brecht Marcel Broodthaers Stanley Brouwn Günter Brus Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Michael Buthe James Lee Byars Pier Paolo Calzolari Luciano Castelli Chuck Close Tony Conrad Ron Cooper Bill Copley Joseph Cornell Robert Cottingham Paul Cotton Hanne Darboven Walter De Maria David Deutsch Jan Dibbets Herbert Distel Gino de Dominicis Marcel Duchamp John Dugger Don Eddy Franz Eggenschwiler Ger van Elk Richard Estes Luciano Fabro John C. Fernie Robert Filliou Jud Fine Joel Fisher Terry Fox Howard Fried Hamish Fulton Franz Gertsch Gilbert & George Ralph Goings Hubert Gojowczyk Dan Graham Walter Grasskamp Nancy Graves Hans Haacke Duane Hanson Guy Harloff Michael Harvey Haus-Rucker-Co Auguste Herbin Eva Hesse Rebecca Horn Jean Olivier Hucleux Douglas Huebler Jörg Immendorff Will Insley Rolf Iseli Ken Jacobs Neil Jenney Alfred Jensen Jasper Johns Joan Jonas Max G. Kaminski Howard Kanovitz Edward Kienholz Imi Knoebel Christof Kohlhofer Jannis Kounellis H.C. Westermann William Wiley Rolf Winnewisser Tom Wudl Klaus Wyborny La Monte Young Peter Young Gilberto Zorio Franz Erhard Walther Robert Watts William Wegman Lawrence Weiner John Wesley Tom Kovachevich Piotr Kowalski David Lamelas Barry Le Va Jean LeGac Alfred Leslie Richard Long Ingeborg Lüscher Inge Mahn Brice Marden Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Blinky Palermo Panamarenko Giulio Paolini A.R. Penck Giuseppe Penone Vettor Pisani Sigmar Polke Stephen Posen Markus Raetz Arnulf Rainer Gerhard Richter Klaus Rinke Dorothea Rockburne Peter Roehr Allen Ruppersberg Edward Ruscha Reiner Ruthenbeck Ulrich Ruckriem Robert Ryman John Salt Salvo Lucas Samaras Paul Sarkisian Jean-Frederic Schnyder Ben Schonzeit Werner Schroeter HA Schult Rudolf Schwarzkogler Fritz Schwegler Richard Serra Paul Sharits Allan Shields Katharina Sieverding Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Klaus Staeck Paul Staiger Jorge Stever Robert Strubin Paul Thek Malcolm Morley Ed Moses Bruce Nauman Hermann Nitsch Claes Oldenburg Agnes Martin Etienne-Martin Richard McLean David Medalla Fernando Melani Bernd and Hilla Becher K. P. Brehmer Christo & Jeanne-Claude Seth Siegelaub Harald Szeemann Jean-Christophe Ammann Bob Projansky Arnold Bode documenta / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Arte Povera Conceptual Art Feminism Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Dada Curatorial Film / Video Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Painting Photography Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Counterculture Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
By Barbara Creed

2023, English
Softcover, 284 pages, 23.5 x 15.7 cm
Published by Routledge / London

$90.00 - Out of stock

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This is a timely update of a seminal text which re-interprets key films of the horror genre, including Carrie, The Exorcist, The Brood and Psycho.

In the first edition, Creed draws on Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to challenge the popular view that women in horror are almost always victims, and argues that patriarchal ideology constructs women as monstrous in relation to her sexuality and reproductive body to justify her subjugation. Although a projection of male fears and paranoid fantasies, the monstrous-feminine is nonetheless a terrifying figure. Creed’s argument contests Freudian and Lacanian theories of sexual difference to offer a provocative rereading of classical and contemporary horror.

This updated edition includes a new section examining contemporary feminist horror films in relation to nonhuman theory. Creed proposes a new concept of radical abjection to reinterpret the monstrous-feminine as a figure who embraces abjection by reclaiming her body and re-defining her otherness as nonhuman – while questioning patriarchy, anthropocentrism, misogyny and the meaning of the human. Films discussed include Ginger Snaps, Teeth, Atlantics, The Girl with All the Gifts, Border and Titane.

Barbara Creed’s classic remains as relevant as ever and this edition will be of interest to academics and students of feminist theory, nonhuman theory, critical animal studies, race, and queer theory.

Barbara Creed is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of seven books, including Darwin’s Screens: Evolutionary Aesthetics, Time and Sexual Display in the Cinema (2009); and Stray: Human- Animal Ethics in the Anthropocene (2017). She is the director of the Human Rights and Animal Ethics Research Network (HRAE). She has been on the boards of Writers Week, the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Melbourne Queer Film Festival.

File under: Barbara Creed Routledge / London Feminism Theory / Essay Film / Video Art Photography Surrealism LGBTQ+ Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction

Painting in New York 1971–83

2023, English
Hardcover (clothbound), 268 page, 29.8 x 25.4 cm
Published by Karma / New York

$125.00 - Out of stock

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A window into the world of 1970s painting through the work of 30 women artists. Text by Hilton Als, Elizabeth Hess, Lucy R. Lippard, Ivy Shapiro. Conversation with Connie Choi, Cynthia Carlson, Cynthia Hawkins, Harriet Korman, Dindga McCannon.

Published to follow the landmark exhibition at Karma Gallery, New York, this catalog unites the works of 30 women painters who were active in New York City during the 1970s. The collection showcases the diverse practices and backgrounds of these artists, all of whom were deeply influenced by the transformative legacy of second-wave feminism. During this period, a new form of painting emerged, fusing elements of sculpture and textile into the medium while reevaluating its role through innovative art historical methodologies. Amid debates about the relevance of painting, women artists revitalized the practice, coinciding with a shifting political landscape characterized by the global revolt of women against their marginalized status.

Artists include: Emma Amos, Ida Applebroog, Jennifer Bartlett, Betty Blayton, Vivian Browne, Cynthia Carlson, Martha Diamond, Louise Fishman, Suzan Frecon, Nancy Graves, Cynthia Hawkins, Mary Heilmann, Virginia Jaramillo, Jane Kaplowitz, Harriet Korman, Lois Lane, Helen Marden, Dindga McCannon, Ree Morton, Elizabeth Murray, Ellen Phelan, Howardena Pindell, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Faith Ringgold, Dorothea Rockburne, Susan Rothenberg, Joan Semmel, Jenny Snider, Joan Snyder, Pat Steir.

File under: Emma Amos Ida Applebroog Jennifer Bartlett Betty Blayton Vivian Browne Cynthia Carlson Martha Diamond Louise Fishman Suzan Frecon Nancy Graves Cynthia Hawkins Mary Heilmann Virginia Jaramillo Jane Kaplowitz Harriet Korman Lois Lane Helen Marden Dindga McCannon Ree Morton Elizabeth Murray Ellen Phelan Howardena Pindell Sylvia Plimack Mangold Faith Ringgold Dorothea Rockburne Susan Rothenberg Joan Semmel Jenny Snider Joan Snyder Pat Steir Hilton Als Elizabeth Hess Lucy R. Lippard Ivy Shapiro Karma / New York Art Theory / Essay Painting Feminism Minimal Art

ELIZABETH NEWMAN
STILL MAKIN’ HISTORY...

2024, English
Softcover, 145 pages, 21 x 29.8 cm
Published by Neon Parc / Melbourne Discipline / Melbourne

$30.00 - Out of stock

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This luminous volume on artist Elizabeth Newman includes two essays by Francis Plagne, each of which cover different, crucial time-periods of Newman’s practice. Highly illustrated, the beautiful works collected here range from the very recent, to those created in the last ten years or so. Melbourne-based Newman uses painting, printmaking, installation and found objects to explore, interrogate and apprehend questions that revolve around the philosophical and social conditions of art.

Co-published by Neon Parc and Discipline, Elizabeth Newman: Still makin’ history.... is the sister volume to Elizabeth Newman: Drawings.

File under: Elizabeth Newman Neon Parc / Melbourne Discipline / Melbourne Painting Feminism Art Australian Art Minimal Art

Revolt, She Said
by Julia Kristeva

2002, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 22.9 x 11.5 cm
Published by Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles

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May '68 in France expressed a fundamental version of freedom: not freedom to succeed, but freedom to revolt. Political revolutions ultimately betray revolt because they cease to question themselves. Revolt, as I understand it—psychic revolt, analytic revolt, artistic revolt--refers to a permanent state of questioning, of transformations, an endless probing of appearances. In this book, Julia Kristeva extends the definition of revolt beyond politics per se. Kristeva sees revolt as a state of permanent questioning and transformation, of change that characterizes psychic life and, in the best cases, art. For her, revolt is not simply about rejection and destruction—it is a necessary process of renewal and regeneration.

Julia Kristeva is a professor of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. She is the author of many highly respected books and a practicing psychoanalyst.

File under: Julia Kristeva Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles Sociology / Politics Theory / Essay Feminism Philosophy Psychoanalysis

After Sex: The Search for Reproductive Freedom
Edited by Edna Bonhomme & Alice Spawls

2023, English
Softcover, 222 pages
Published by Silver Press / London

$35.00 - Out of stock

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The last decade has seen a rise in activism and arguments over women’s reproductive freedom reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s. This title provides personal and political perspectives from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, setting feminist classics alongside contemporary accounts and highlighting the experiences of women of colour and working-class women. Contributors include Nell Dunn, Anne Enright, bell hooks, Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lord and Sally Rooney.

These essays, short stories and poems trace past understandings of reproductive freedom and consider what it might look like in future, making urgent connections between women’s equality and access to contraception, healthcare and childcare. The writers pay special attention to people — both fictional and real — who have sought control over their sexual lives, and the joy, comedy, difficulties and disappointments that entails. But above all, After Sex testifies to the power of great writing to show us why that freedom is worth pursuing — without shame and without apology.

Contributors include: Edna Bonhomme, Gwendolyn Brooks, RachelConnolly, T.L. Cowan, Maggie Doherty, Nell Dunn, Anne Enright, Tracy Fuad, Kirsten Ghodsee, Vivian Gornick, Donna Haraway, bell hooks, Jamaica Kincaid, Patricia Knight, R.O. Kwon, Ursula K. Le Guin, Natasha Lennard, Sophie Lewis, Audre Lorde, Erin Maglaque, Adrienne Rich, Denise Riley, Sally Rooney, Loretta J. Ross, Madeleine Schwartz, Annabel Sowemimo, Keeanga Yahmatta Taylor, Bernard Williams and more.

File under: Edna Bonhomme Gwendolyn Brooks T.L. Cowan Maggie Doherty Nell Dunn Anne Enright Tracy Fuad Kirsten Ghodsee Vivian Gornick Donna Haraway bell hooks Jamaica Kincaid Patricia Knight R.O. Kwon Ursula K. Le Guin Natasha Lennard Sophie Lewis Audre Lorde Erin Maglaque Adrienne Rich Denise Riley Sally Rooney Loretta J. Ross Madeleine Schwartz Annabel Sowemimo Keeanga Yahmatta Taylor Bernard Williams Rachel Connolly Silver Press / London Health Feminism Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry

Leonora Carrington
Revelation

2023, English
Hardcover, 312 pages,‎ 23 x 26.5 cm
Published by RM / Barcelona

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The first overview in a decade of the dazzling Surrealist universe of Leonora Carrington—artist, author, occultist, feminist.

In recent years, the art and fiction of Surrealist painter and author Leonora Carrington have received much mainstream recognition, but—until now—there has been no authoritative overview of her work. Divided into 10 sections, Revelation introduces Carrington’s singular artistic universe, displaying an extensive array of her wide-ranging creations (including paintings, drawings and tapestries) and fusing a chronological narrative of her life with a study of the most prominent themes in her work—from her training and early influences in England and Florence to her contact with the Surrealists in Paris, through her time in Saint-Martin-d’Ardèche, her traumatic experiences in Spain, her immigration to New York and her new homeland in Mexico. Punctuating the reproductions are archival materials, book excerpts and documentary photographs.

Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) was a British-born artist, Surrealist painter and novelist, famed for her narrative scenes inhabited by mystical figures participating in curious rituals. After fleeing Europe during World War II, she lived most of her adult life in Mexico City, where she was a founding member of the women's liberation movement.

File under: Leonora Carrington Carlos Martín Stefan van Raay Tere Arcq Naja Rasmussen RM / Barcelona Surrealism Feminism Painting Drawing Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Occult / Esoterica

FROM THE OTHER SIDE: THE MONSTROUS FEMININE

2023, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 110 pages, 25 x 17 cm
Published by ACCA / Melbourne

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Produced in association with the upcoming ACCA exhibition of the same name, this publication casts a lens upon feminist, queer, and non-binary subjectivities to consider the transgressive pleasures and liberations of horror, as makers, masters and consumers of the genre.

From the other side features curatorial texts by Elyse Goldfinch and Jessica Clark, alongside writings from Barbara Creed, author of The Monstrous Feminine; Canadian film writer Kier-La Janisse, author of the cult classic, House of Psychotic Women, 2012; Lisa Fuller, a Murri woman and author of the novel Ghost Bird, 2021; and a horror-themed screenplay by UK-based author and filmmaker Alison Peirse, editor of the Women Make Horror anthology, 2021.

Artists featured in the exhibition and book include Clare Milledge, Cybele Cox, Heather B Swann, Jemima Lucas, Julia Robinson, Karla Dickens, Kellie Wells, Lonnie Hutchinson, Louise Bourgeois, Maria Kozic, Marianna Simnett, Mia Boe, Minyoung Kim, Naomi Blacklock, Naomi Kantjuriny, SJ Norman, Suzan Pitt, Tracey Moffatt and Zamara Zamara.

The exhibition crosses the artificial parameters of horror in the everyday, as something that exists as part of society but also from outside of it. Culminating in a potent synthesis of dread, camp, humour and catharsis, From the other side challenges the traditional narratives and assumed boundaries of the body, gender, the self and the ‘other’.

File under: Clare Milledge Cybele Cox Heather B Swann Jemima Lucas Julia Robinson Karla Dickens Kellie Wells Lonnie Hutchinson Louise Bourgeois Maria Kozic Marianna Simnett Mia Boe Minyoung Kim Naomi Blacklock Naomi Kantjuriny SJ Norman Suzan Pitt Tracey Moffatt Zamara Zamara Elyse Goldfinch Jessica Clark Barbara Creed Kier-La Janisse Lisa Fuller Alison Peirse ACCA / Melbourne LGBTQ+ Feminism Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Photography Painting Australian Art Australian Photography Group Shows / Collections Curatorial

Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
by Lauren Elkin

2023, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 368 pages, 22.86 x 15.24 cm
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux / New York

$60.00 - Out of stock

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"Destined to become a new classic ... Elkin shatters the truisms that have evolved around feminist thought."—Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick and After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography

One of Lit Hub's most anticipated books of 2023

What kind of art does a monster make? And what if monster is a verb? Noun or a verb, the idea is a dare: to overwhelm limits, to invent our own definitions of beauty.

In this dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies, and art, Lauren Elkin—the celebrated author of Flaneuse—explores the ways in which feminist artists have taken up the challenge of their work and how they not only react against the patriarchy but redefine their own aesthetic aims. How do we tell the truth about our experiences as bodies? What is the language, what are the materials, that we need to transcribe them? And what are the unique questions facing those engaged with female bodies, queer bodies, sick bodies, racialized bodies?

Encompassing with a rich genealogy of work across the literary and artistic landscape, Elkin makes daring links between disparate points of reference—among them Julia Margaret Cameron's photography, Kara Walker's silhouettes, Vanessa Bell's portraits, Eva Hesse's rope sculptures, Carolee Schneemann's body art, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's trilingual masterpiece DICTEE—and steps into the tradition of cultural criticism established by Susan Sontag, Helene Cixous, and Maggie Nelson.

An erudite, potent examination of beauty and excess, sentiment and touch, the personal and the political, the ambiguous and the opaque, Art Monsters is a radical intervention that forces us to consider how the idea of the art monster might transform the way we imagine—and enact—our lives.

File under: Julia Margaret Cameron Kara Walker Vanessa Bell Eva Hesse Carolee Schneemann Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Lauren Elkin Farrar Straus & Giroux / New York Feminism Theory / Essay Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Photography Painting Sociology / Politics LGBTQ+ Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

I See / You Mean
by Lucy R. Lippard

1979, English
Softcover, 152 pages, 20 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Chrysalis Books / Los Angeles

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Rare unread first 1979 edition of Lucy R. Lippard's experimental novel, I See / You Mean.

I See / You Mean is an experimental novel about mirrors, maps, relationships, the ocean, elusive success, and possible happiness. Through a collage of verbal photographs, overheard dialogue, sexual encounters, found material, and self identification devices (astrology, the I Ching, palmistry, Tarot), it charts from past to future the changing currents between two women and two men: a writer, a model/stockbroker/maybe dictator, a photographer, and an actor. A lot happens between the lines. Art critic Lucy Lippard wrote this novel in 1970 and became a feminist in the process: “I started writing and realized I was ashamed to be a woman. Then I had to find out why. Then I got very angry. The fragmented visual form came out of contemporary art and the conflicting emotions of 1960s political confrontation; they suggested a new way to put things back together—an open-ended, female way that didn’t pretend conclusions.”

Lucy R. Lippard is a writer, activist, and curator. She is the author of twenty-five books on contemporary art and cultural criticism and has curated some fifty exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.

As New, unread copy of the first 1979 edition.

File under: Lucy R. Lippard Chrysalis Books / Los Angeles Fiction / Poetry Out-of-print / Rare Feminism

Videotapes by Women from the The Los Angeles Women's Video Centre.

1977, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 12 pages, 19 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by George Paton Gallery / Parkville

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Catalogue published in 1977 on the occasion of the exhibition Videotapes by Women from the Los Angeles Women's Video Centre, October 26—November 3, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Parkville. Texts on each video work, screening program, with introduction by Kiffy Rubbo and Meredith Rogers, essay by Candace Compton. Works by Martha Roler, Candace Compton, Nancy Angelo, Anne Prutzman, Eileen Griffin, Jennifer Kotter, Holly O'Konski, Suzanne Lacy, Barbara Smith, Leslie Carslon, Claudia Queen, Adele Shaules, Linda Henry, Ilene Segalove Linda Montana, Nancy Heath Angelo, Marge Dean, Sandra Tabori, Susan Roberta Mogul, Sheila Ruth, Jan Zimmerman.

Los Angeles Women's Video Center founded in 1976 by Nancy Angelo, Candace Compton, and Annette Hunt in 1976 and joined by Jerri Allyn in 1977, was committed making video production accessible to women artists. Through its productions about socially concerned video art, documentation of WB programs, the LAWVC was active in informing the public about women's issues and concerns.

Very Good copy, light pinching to spine.

File under: Martha Roler Candace Compton Nancy Angelo Anne Prutzman Eileen Griffin Jennifer Kotter Holly O'Konski Suzanne Lacy Barbara Smith Leslie Carslon Claudia Queen Adele Shaules Linda Henry Ilene Segalove Linda Montana Nancy Heath Angelo Marge Dean Sandra Tabori Susan Roberta Mogul Sheila Ruth Jan Zimmerman Kiffy Rubbo Meredith Rogers Candace Compton George Paton Gallery / Parkville Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Art Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Feminism Performance / Dance / Theater

ZONE : Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 1—3 (complete set)
Edited by Michel Feher with Ramona Naddaff and Nadia Tazi

1989, English
3 Vols. softcovers, 500 + 560 + 584 pages, 23.5 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Zone Books / New York

$190.00 - Out of stock

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Complete set (3 volumes) of ZONE : Fragments for a History of the Human Body, published in 1989 by Zone Books, and all long out-of-print. The forty-eight essays and photographic dossiers in these three volumes examine the history of the human body as a field where life and thought intersect. They show how different cultures at different times have entwined physical capacities and mental mechanisms in order to construct a body adapted to moral ideas or social circumstances — the body of a charismatic citizen or a visionary monk, a mirror image of the world or a reflection of the spirit.

Each volume emphasizes a particular perspective. Part 1 explores the human body’s relationship to the divine, to the bestial, and to the machines that imitate or simulate it. Part 2 covers the junctures between the body’s “outside” and “inside” by studying the manifestations — or production — of the soul and the expression of the emotions and, on another level, by examining the speculations inspired by cenesthesia, pain, and death. Part 3 brings into play the classical opposition between organ and function by showing how organs or bodily substances can be used to justify or challenge the way human societies function and, conversely, how political and social functions tend to make the bodies of the persons filling them the organs of a larger body — the social body or the universe as a whole.

Among the contributors to Fragments for a History of the Human Body are Mark Elvin, Catherine Gallagher, Françoise Héritier-Augé, Julia Kristeva, William R. LaFleur, Thomas W. Laqueur, Jacques Le Goff, Nicole Loraux, Mario Perniola, Hillel Schwartz, Jean Starobinski, Jean-Pierre Vernant, and Caroline Walker Bynum.

“ZONE is unequivocally the most innovative, informative, and intellectually stimulating journal I have ever encountered…It belongs in all but the smallest personal, public, and academic collections.” —Library Journal

Very Good copies all, only light wear, light page tanning. All first editions, second printings.

File under: Michel Feher Ramona Naddaff Nadia Tazi Hal Foster Mark Elvin Catherine Gallagher Françoise Héritier-Augé Julia Kristeva William R. LaFleur Thomas W. Laqueur Jacques Le Goff Nicole Loraux Mario Perniola Hillel Schwartz Jean Starobinski Jean-Pierre Vernant Caroline Walker Bynum Zone Books / New York Theory / Essay Psychoanalysis Health Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Art Eros Fashion Group Shows / Collections Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Occult / Esoterica Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Philosophy Periodicals Sociology / Politics Feminism LGBTQ+

Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche
by Luce Irigaray

1991, English
Softcover, 176 pages, 23 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Columbia University Press / New York

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First 1991 Columbia edition.

Published in France in 1980, Marine Lover is the first in a trilogy in which Luce Irigaray links the interrogation of the feminine in post-Hegelian philosophy with a pre-Socratic investigation of the elements. Irigaray undertakes to interrogate Nietzche, the grandfather of poststructuralist philosophy, from the point of view of water.

According to Irigaray, water is the element Nietzsche fears most. She uses this element in her narrative because for her there is a complex relationship between the feminine and the fluid. Irigaray's method is to engage in an amorous dialogue with the male philosopher. In this dialogue, she ruptures conventional discourse and writes in a lyrical style that defies distinction between theory, fiction, and philosophy.

Luce Irigaray (b. 1930) is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist who examined the uses and misuses of language in relation to women.

Very Good copy.

File under: Luce Irigaray Columbia University Press / New York Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Feminism Psychoanalysis Philosophy

Ethics of Sexual Difference
by Luce Irigaray

1993, English
Softcover, 216 pages, 23 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Cornell University Press / New York

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First 1993 Cornell edition.

"Who or what the other is, I never know. But the other who is forever unknowable is the one who differs from me sexually. This feeling of surprise, astonishment, and wonder in the face of the unknowable ought to be returned to its locus: that of sexual difference." Thus Luce Irigaray undertakes a searching inquiry into what may be the philosophical problem of our age.

Irigaray approaches the question of sexual difference by looking at the ways in which thought and language--whether in philosophy, science, or psychoanalysis--are gendered. She juxtaposes evocative readings of classic texts, including Plato's Symposium, Aristotle's Physics, Descartes's "On Wonder" in The Passions of the Soul, Spinoza's Ethics, Merleau-Ponty's The Visible and the Invisible, and Levinas's Totality and Infinity, with meditations on experiences of love: between fetus and mother, between heterosexual lovers, between women, and between women and their own bodies.

Exploding traditional dualities such as inside/outside, form/content, subject/object, and self/other, Irigaray shows how an understanding of such experiences points to gender blindness in both classic and contemporary theory. Asserting that women have never known a love of self out of which a non-dominated love of the other is possible, Irigaray argues that only when women insist on the integrity of their own spaces of embodiment can love become the basis of a revolution in ethics.

Published in French in 1984, An Ethics of Sexual Difference is now available in English in a superb translation by Carolyn Burke and Gillian C. Gill. Readers interested in feminist theory, literary theory, and philosophy--indeed anyone deeply concerned with gender relations--will be challenged by the brilliance and boldness of Irigaray's analyses.

Luce Irigaray (b. 1930) is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist who examined the uses and misuses of language in relation to women.

Very Good copy. Light (erasable) pencil marginalia.

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This Sex Which is Not One
by Luce Irigaray

1985 / 1988, English
Softcover, 222 pages, 23 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Cornell University Press / New York

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First 1985 Cornell edition, 1988 printing.

In This Sex Which Is Not One, Luce Irigaray elaborates on some of the major themes of Speculum of the Other Woman, her landmark work on the status of woman in Western philosophical discourse and in psychoanalytic theory. In eleven acute and widely ranging essays, Irigaray reconsiders the question of female sexuality in a variety of contexts that are relevant to current discussion of feminist theory and practice.

Among the topics she treats are the implications of the thought of Freud and Lacan for understanding womanhood and articulating a feminine discourse; classic views on the significance of the difference between male and female sex organs; and the experience of erotic pleasure in men and in women. She also takes up explicitly the question of economic exploitation of women; in an astute reading of Marx she shows that the subjection of woman has been institutionalized by her reduction to an object of economic exchange. Throughout Irigaray seeks to dispute and displace male-centered structures of language and thought through a challenging writing practice that takes a first step toward a woman's discourse, a discourse that would put an end to Western culture's enduring phallocentrism.

Making more direct and accessible the subversive challenge of Speculum of the Other Woman, this volume—skillfully translated by Catherine Porter (with Carolyn Burke)—will be essential reading for anyone seriously concerned with contemporary feminist issues.

Luce Irigaray (b. 1930) is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist who examined the uses and misuses of language in relation to women.

Very Good—Fine copy. Light (erasable) pencil marginalia.

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Speculum of the Other Woman
by Luce Irigaray

1985 / 1987, English
Softcover, 416 pages, 23 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Cornell University Press / New York

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First 1985 Cornell edition, 1987 printing.

Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray is incontestably one of the most important works in feminist theory to have been published in this generation. For the profession of psychoanalysis, Irigaray believes, female sexuality has remained a "dark continent," unfathomable and unapproachable; its nature can only be misunderstood by those who continue to regard women in masculine terms. In the first section of the book, "The Blind Spot of an Old Dream of Symmetry," Irigaray rereads Freud's essay "Femininity," and his other writings on women, bringing to the fore the masculine ideology implicit in psychoanalytic theory and in Western discourse in general: woman is defined as a disadvantaged man, a male construct with no status of her own.

In the last section, "Plato's Hystera," Irigaray reinterprets Plato's myth of the cave, of the womb, in an attempt to discover the origins of that ideology, to ascertain precisely the way in which metaphors were fathered that henceforth became vehicles of meaning, to trace how woman came to be excluded from the production of discourse. Between these two sections is "Speculum"-ten meditative, widely ranging, and freely associational essays, each concerned with an aspect of the history of Western philosophy in its relation to woman, in which Irigaray explores woman's essential difference from man.

Luce Irigaray (b. 1930) is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist who examined the uses and misuses of language in relation to women.

Very Good copy. Previous owner's name.

File under: Luce Irigaray Cornell University Press / New York Philosophy Psychoanalysis Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Feminism

Sexes and Genealogies
by Luce Irigaray

1993, English
Softcover, 192 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Columbia University Press / New York

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First 1993 Columbia edition.

In the tradition of Simone de Beauvoir and Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray is one of France's most versatile feminist critics. Sexes and Genealogies, a collection of lectures delivered throughout Canada and Europe, introduces her writing to a wider American audience.

Irigaray's most famous work, Speculum of the Other Woman, prompted her expulsion from the Lacanin Ecole Freudienne because of its searing depiction of Platonic and Freudian representations of women. Now Sexes and Genealogies analyzes sexual difference according to what she terms the double dimension of gender and ideology.

Irigaray covers major issues in religion, the law, psychoanalysis, and literature, such as: the continued neglect by psychoanalysts of the sexual and gender dimensions of therapy, the urgency of female divinity for contemporary feminist movements, and a reconsideration of women's relation to the market economy. Sexes and Genealogies also includes Irigaray's dazzling reading of the Oresteia, "Body Against Body: In Relation to the Mother," now acknowleged as a feminist classic.

Luce Irigaray (b. 1930) is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist who examined the uses and misuses of language in relation to women.

Very Good copy. Light (erasable) pencil marginalia.

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The Irigaray Reader
by Luce Irigaray; Edited by Margaret Whitford

1991, English
Softcover, 244 pages, 22.7 x 15.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Blackwell / Cambridge

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First 1991 edition of The Irigaray Reader, edited by Margaret Whitford. Luce Irigaray is one of the leading French feminist philosophers and psychoanalysts. Her work is concerned primarily with the construction of femininity and sexual differences in Western philosophy and with the exploration of new psychoanalytical and feminist perspectives on sexual differences. She has written a number of influential books, notably Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is Not One, both translated into English. The Irigaray Reader is a collection of Luce Irigaray's most important papers to date. They range across feminism, philosophy, psychoanalysis and linguistics, and are grouped here into three broad sections: The Critique of Patriarchy, Psychoanalysis and Language, and Ethics and Subjectivity. Each section begins with an introduction by Margaret Whitford, and the book also includes bibliographies of works by and about Irigaray. A number of pieces in The Irigaray Reader appear for the first time in English. This is the most comprehensive collection available of Irigaray's work, work which has profoundly influenced contemporary debates across a range of disciplines.

"A magnificent sample of the best and the boldest of Irigaray's writings and the projects she calls for and calls forth. An excellent text for both introductory and advanced work on Irigaray."—Choice

Good copy with some wear.

File under: Luce Irigaray Margaret Whitford Blackwell / Cambridge Feminism Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Psychoanalysis Philosophy

Alice Doesn't : Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema
by Teresa De Lauretis

1984, English
Softcover, 220 pages, 23.5 x 15.5 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Indiana University Press / Indiana

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1984 collection of writings by Teresa De Lauretis, Alice Doesn't : Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema, published by Indiana University Press.

"There is hardly a page in this collection of hard-thought and brilliantly written essays that does not yield some new insight. . . . The writing bristles, the thought challenges, and the analyses genuinely illuminate rather than simply reflect an accommodation to tired critical cliches."—HAYDEN WHITE

"[de Lauretis] is a major contemporary semiotician and feminist theorist, who reads together theoretical texts and narratives, challenging positions of mastery and ahistoricity and insisting on feminism's refusal of given definitions and cultural values."—ELAINE MARKS

"These essays are exciting and genuinely elegant . . . maintaining . . . a view broad and sophisticated enough to be truly feminist, semiotic, and cinematic, more precisely, to be all three at once. Teresa de Lauretis exemplifies in her rare style the obsessive topics of her book: imaging and desire."—DUDLEY ANDREW

"A work of critical intelligence that redefines an entire area of con-temporary cultural studies, Alice Doesn't will not please semioticians, feminists, or cinema specialists, but it will force them, and all of us, to think."—WLAD GODZICH

"In a sense, then, narrative and visual pleasure constitute the frame of reference of cinema, one which provides the measure of desire. I believe this statement must apply to women as it does to men. The difference is, quite literally, that it is men who have defined the ''visible things'' of cinema, who have defined the object and the modalities of vision, pleasure, and meaning on the basis of perceptual and conceptual schemata provided by partriarchal ideological and social formations. In the frame of reference of men's cinema, narrative, and visual theories, the male is the measure of desire, quite as the phallus is its signifier and the standard of visibility in psychoanalysis. The project of feminist cinema, therefore, is not so much ''to make visible the invisible'', as the saying goes, or to destroy vision altogether, as to construct another (object of) vision and the conditions of visibility for a different social subject."

Very Good with light wear and previous owner inscriber to title page. First 1984 edition, reprint.

File under: Chantal Akerman Alfred Hitchcock Teresa de Lauretis Roland Barthes Laura Mulvey Julia Kristeva Indiana University Press / Indiana Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Film / Video Art Feminism Psychoanalysis

Sexual Subversions
by Elizabeth Grosz

1989, English
Softcover, 262 pages, 24 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Allen & Unwin / NSW

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First 1989 edition of "Sexual Subversions" by Australian philosopher Elizabeth Grosz, introducing the works of three well known, if not well-read, French feminists: Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray and Michèle Le Dœuff. It provides a map of an area where there are few detailed discussion of the achievements of these difficult, yet immensely rewarding, writers. In doing so, this overview raises issues of general relevance to feminist research: it participates in debates around the nature of feminist theory, the relations feminist intellectuals have to male dominated knowledges, and the strategies appropriate for developing non patriarchal, autonomous or woman-centred knowledges. No book in French feminists would be complete without including the contributions of Kristeva and Irigaray. The inclusion of Le Deouff's work, which brings a different perspective to bear on the question of sexual difference, provides a counterbalance to literary appropriations of French feminism by Anglo-American readerships. Kristeva, Irigaray and Le Deouff are the focal points of this study, precisely because each highlights the differences of the others, revealing the frameworks to which the others are committed. Nevertheless, while these writers do not present a common political or theoretical position or form a school, each addresses the question of women's autonomy from male definition, affirms the sexual specificity of women, seeks out a femininity women can use to question the patriarchal norms and ideals of femininity and rejects the preordained positions patriarchy allots to women.

Table of Contents
1 Modern French philosophy, 2 Julia Kristeva and the speaking subject, :1 .Julia Kristeva: Abjection, motherhood and love 4 Luce Irigaray and sexual difference 5 Luce Irigaray and the ethics of alterity 6 Michele Le Doeuff and the philosophical imaginary

Elizabeth Grosz is an Australian philosopher, feminist theorist, taught philosophy at the University of Sydney at the time of publishing. Among the many works to which she has contributed are "Feminist Challenges" and "Crossing Boundaries". She is Jean Fox O'Barr Women's Studies Professor at Duke University.

Very Good copy with light cover reading wear to boards.

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Lee Lozano
Drawings 1958–64

2021, English
Hardcover (clothbound), 640 pages, 23 x 18.5 cm
Published by Karma / New York

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A handsome and hefty clothbound compendium of Lozano’s explorations of gender through drawing,
this 640-page volume comprises drawings from a critical six-year period in the development of American painter and conceptual artist Lee Lozano’s (1930-99) practice. Her daring, facetious sketches investigate issues of gender and the body through the erogenous anthropomorphization of tools.

Lee Lozano: Drawings 1958-64 includes two newly commissioned essays by Helen Molesworth and Tamar Garb. “What I love about Lozano—besides the crazy, ham-fisted quality of her drawn line, pictures made with pencils that appear to have been held with a fist—is how her demonstration of the word 'connection' is not bound to any of the anodyne ways we currently use it,” writes Molesworth. “There’s nothing about 'listening' or 'building community' or 'empathy' in any of these drawings. For Lozano, connection is fraught and hairy. Connection is dangerous.”

File under: Lee Lozano Tamar Garb Helen Molesworth Karma / New York Drawing Feminism Art Painting