MAI Feminism & Visual Culture: Focus Issue Eleven: Representing Women's Realities

Misiak, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7153-944X, Sadri, Houman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7736-2494 and Backman Rogers, Anna (2023) MAI Feminism & Visual Culture: Focus Issue Eleven: Representing Women's Realities. [Journal]

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This focus feature edition of MAI, devoted to representations of women’s realities, has been a long time in the making. We are now delighted to finally offer this provocative, engaging, and political dossier. These articles cover a range of aesthetic principles and strategies which women artists, activists and filmmakers have used to present their realities to a world that all too often—structurally, culturally, socially, and politically—denies them access to representation and to voice.

The concerns of representing and narrating our global realities and mediating our diverse identities have always been feminist issues. Still, with the insurgence of new technologies, the potentially vile effects of artificial intelligence on women, minorities and disenfranchised communities, and the seeming injunction on young women especially to represent themselves online, the questions raised and addressed in this collection of articles are of increasingly pressing importance for feminist politics.

Using different forms, from poems through interviews, reports, and reviews to more traditional research papers and studying the representations of reality in docs, the avant-garde and fiction, our insightful, talented MAI authors discuss the relationship between the feminist creator and the spectator as they produce and read visual stories grounded in experience.

Item Type:	Journal
ISSN:	2003-167x
Subjects:	Art History & Theory Creative Art & Design Film & Television Photography
Courses by Department:	The School of Film & Television
Depositing User:	Anna Misiak
Date Deposited:	18 Dec 2024 09:56
Last Modified:	18 Dec 2024 09:56
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/5856

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