In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s

In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s

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Through In Visible Archives, Margaret Galvan examines five collections of records created in the 1980s that are centered around a number of feminist and cultural issues. She focuses on visual records produced by women, such as comics, photographs, paintings, drawings, collages, and multi-media pieces. Galvan examines the influence these records have had on women's culture as well as how the surrounding culture influenced those visual records. Some of the cultural issues she focuses on are the feminist sex wars, the HIV/AIDS crisis, the women in print movement, and countercultural grassroots periodical networks. In Visible Archives highlights creations where women examine and interact with their own identities and bodies. With this book, Galvan seeks to make these visual archives visible and highlight their importance to history, which has previously been overlooked. Artists studied include Hannah Alderfer, Beth Jaker, Marybeth Nelson, Roberta Gregory, Lee Marrs, Alison Bechdel, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Nan Goldin.

Galvan, Margaret

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/jj.1204241

University of Minnesota Press

2023

Bianca Dagostino

Book

EISBN: 978-1-4529-6982-4

Galvan, Margaret. In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s. University of Minnesota Press, 2023. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/jj.1204241.