Taking a hard look : gender and visual culture /: gender and visual culture. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Amanda du Preez.
• Other Names: Du Preez, Amanda
• Contents: Exploring visual culture and gender through discursive performative visual art practices / Kathryn Grushka -- Into the breach : Christine Dixie's Birthing Tray-Honey / Brenda Schmahmann -- Oedipus the fallen one / Nadira Omarjee -- Saints and sinners : re-evaluating gendered power bases entrenched by religious imagery / Karen von Veh -- Something "new" that's been here all along? The Afropolitan bridal couple in the South African bridal magazine / Benita de Robillard -- From bedroom to boardroom : corporate culture in two South African gloss men's magazines / Stella Viljoen -- Postcards of the comic other and touristic representation / Jeanne van Eeden -- Looking back, poolside : disruption, (post)-apartheid white female subjectivity and returning the gaze / Jennifer Schmidt -- Tentative reflections on (gendered) subjectivities--liminality, refusal and post-apartheid law / Karin van Marle -- The violence of the eye : the gendered gaze in ublic space / Tamlyn Jane Monson -- The male gaze and the momoerotic aesthetics of Tamil film : the gendering of visual culture in South India / Martyn Rogers -- Tarzan : the man we love to hate / Pieter Swanepoel -- For real : hysteria, transsexuality and femininity-as-masquerade / Amanda du Preez.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxi, 260 pages), illustrations, 1 map
• Subjects: 700.103; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Gender identity in art; Sex role in art; Visual communication; Popular culture; Art and society; ART -- Performance; ART -- Reference; Art and society; Gender identity in art; Popular culture; Sex role in art; Visual communication; Society & social sciences; Gender studies: women; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443811408; 1443811408
• Related ISBNs: 9781443809825; 1443809829
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.