Gestures
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- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- Publication date:
- 29 January 2026
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- 9781526168481
- 9781526168498
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- Subjects:
- Literature, Literary Texts, Art: General Interest, Art
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Book description
Gestures: A body of work is a cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to gesture that inhabits the spaces between visual art, literature, and performance. Combining creative and critical modes, it is the first comprehensive and collective feminist investigation of gesture – as represented, performed, and mobilised in art, writing, and multiple interdisciplinary entanglements. Articles, essays, and dialogues consider and perform how gesture/s and feminism/s have animated one another in feminist and interdisciplinary artistic practice, attending to gestural encounters in art, literature, and life. Offering interdisciplinary readings of artists and writers’ work from the 1960s onwards, contributors explore well-known but complex figures such as Ana Mendieta and Francesca Woodman, alongside those less recognised by canonical feminist art histories, including artist-writer Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Oglala Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier. Also included are experiments in art writing and autotheory that explore and perform the ways the body acts through, acts up, and is acted upon by the lived experience of gestures, be it the ‘cut’ of khatna in practices of female genital cutting or the ‘scratch’ incurred by the skin disease eczema. While gestures can sometimes fail or falter, this book maintains that they hold potential for imagining new worlds beyond heterosexist, patriarchal, ableist, racist, and imperialist spaces of biopolitical control. Together, these contributions offer a fresh intervention into the conventions of critical writing. Conceived as a body of parts organised by gesture, this collection offers an essential rethinking of what feminist practice, theory, and history can say and do.
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