Sep 2026· Academic Journal of Management and Social Sciences· 0 citations· 1 references
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This essay examines how the structural absence of female subjectivity in modern and contemporary art reinforces visual hierarchies that position women as objects rather than agents of meaning. Drawing on the work of feminist art historians Linda Nochlin, Griselda Pollock, and gender studies scholar Judith Butler, the essay argues that women’s exclusion from artistic authority is historically and discursively produced through institutional and representational structures. This essay asks: how do feminist performance practices challenge this structural absence, and to what extent can embodied performance reconfigure the relationship between the female body, spectatorship, and agency? Through a comparative case study of Tap and Touch Cinema (1968) by Valie Export, Interior Scroll (1975) by Carolee Schneemann, and Rhythm 0 (1974) by Marina Abramović, the essay demonstrates that feminist performance does not simply represent female subjectivity, but actively produces it through embodied confrontation, authorship, and exposure.
This paper interrogates the presumed naturalness of gendered movement within Odissi, arguing
that the discipline's association of particular gestures, costumes and expressive registers with
masculinity or femininity constitutes a culturally produced convention rather than a biological
given. Employing Judith Butler's t...
Navhya Shah· International journal of soc...· 0 citations
Abstract: This study examines how dialogue, costume, and gesture characterize Jo, Meg, and Amy in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (2019) and articulate gender inequality through Marxist feminism. Using a qualitative approach, 23 time-coded scenes were purposively selected from the film. All data were descriptively coded an...
This study examines the evolution of female representation from ancient literary traditions to contemporary digital technologies through a comparative analysis of Sita, the central heroine of the Ramayana, and Siri, a widely used artificial intelligence virtual assistant. Drawing upon feminist theory, cultural studies,...
Bandita is a powerful critique of the persistent marginalization of feminist scholarship. Taking up the work of Iris Marion Young, Michaele L. Ferguson argues that feminist political theorists have been “internally excluded”: formally included in the discipline while their most disruptive insights are misread, dismis...
This research investigates how women are represented in fashion photography produced by three influential female photographers active between 1945 and 1960: Lee Miller, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, and Lillian Bassman. Goffman’s gender advertisement coding scheme served as the primary analytical framework, through which eighty-t...
M. Botkin, Mariné Aghekyan, Mee-Mun Jung· The International Journal of...· 0 citations
Gender inequality remains widespread in the film and television production industry, yet it is seldom examined in relation to backstage working environments. This article integrates on‐screen and off‐screen perspectives to investigate the working lives of Chinese actresses. Drawing on ethnographic accounts and behi...
