Jane Gerhard: 3 books
Desiring Revolution
Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of Twentieth-Century American Sexual Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2001
There was a moment in the 1970s when sex was what mattered most to feminists. White middle-class women viewed sex as central to both their oppression and their liberation. Young women started to speak and write about the clitoris, orgasm, and masturbation, and publishers and the news media jumped...
The Dinner Party
Judy Chicago and the Power of Popular Feminism, 1970-2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Judy Chicago's monumental art installation The Dinner Party was an immediate sensation when it debuted in 1979, and today it is considered the most popular work of art to emerge from the second-wave feminist movement. Jane F. Gerhard examines the piece's popularity to understand how ideas about feminism...
The Dinner Party
Restoring Women to History
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The official publication celebrating Judy Chicago’s feminist art masterpiece, The Dinner Party installation at the Brooklyn Museum, and an introduction to outstanding women in history.
Judy Chicago’s *The Dinner Party is a defining work of feminist and contemporary art that brought women’s...