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  • Nude and Naked Women in the Arts

    Mexico and Beyond

    Nude and Naked Women in the Arts: Mexico and Beyond is a study of female nudity as represented by men and women in Mexico and other parts of the world through analysis of both the high arts and folk arts. Eli Bartra explores the diverse forms of artistic expression and their link to the social construction of female gender. This approach is crucial to understanding how forms of discrimination are ... Read more

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  • Feminism and Folk Art

    Case Studies in Mexico, New Zealand, Japan, and Brazil

    by Eli Bartra ...
    This book is a mosaic or quilt of folk art around the world, from polychrome clay figures made in Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla (Mexico) to the baskets Maori women create in New Zealand, from Japanese lacquer work and decorated paddles to black dolls in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The creative impulse found in three continents, four countries, and four geographical regions are juxtaposed to make up a ... Read more

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  • Women in Mexican Folk Art

    Of Promises, Betrayals, Monsters and Celebrities

    by Eli Bartra ...
    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    The aim of this book is to engender Mexican folk art and locate women at its centre by studying the processes of creation, distribution, and consumption, as well as examining iconographic aspects, and elements of class and ethnicity, from the perspective of gender. ... Read more

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  • Crafting Gender

    Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean

    This volume initiates a gender-based framework for analyzing the folk art of Latin America and the Caribbean. Defined here broadly as the "art of the people" and as having a primarily decorative, rather than utilitarian, purpose, folk art is not solely the province of women, but folk art by women in Latin America has received little sustained attention. Crafting Gender begins to redress this gap ... Read more

    $25.19 USD