Supplemental Listing through 1991

[The following list brings our bibliography a bit past a turning point in the scholarship that links feminism and aesthetics–a bend in the road that occurred in 1989-90 when the conjunction that had been forming for roughly twenty years in the feminist theory and practice of separate arts was sufficiently noticeable to require recognition by Philosophy, the academic home of Aesthetics since its inception in Aristotle’s POETICS (or at least since the term came into English in the eighteenth century). Acceptance occurred nearly simultaneously in special issues of the influential APA NEWSLETTER, of a leading feminist philosophy journal, HYPATIA, and of the American Society of Aesthetics’ JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM, all listed below. In the same academic year, the title of Rita Felski’s book, BEYOND FEMINIST AESTHETICS (see literature section, above), implied that the amorphous mass of ideas only recently identified as “feminist aesthetics” by Gisela Ecker’s 1985 title (above, literature section), was already a discipline worth contesting. Although arguments about its name may continue for some time, I expect the systematic feminist study of the arts to be a highly visible component of multi-cultural Women’s Studies in the decades ahead.]

-Estella Lauter

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER ON PHILOSOPHY AND FEMINISM (1990).

Armitt, Lucie, ed. WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE: WOMEN AND SCIENCE FICTION. Routledge, 1991.

Baker, Houston A. WORKINGS OF THE SPIRIT: THE POETICS OF AFRO-AMERICAN WOMEN’S WRITING. University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Bassard, Katherine Clay. “Gender and Genre: Black Women’s Autobiobraphy and the Ideology of Literacy.” AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW 26. 1 (Spring 1992), 119-130.

Bergstrom, Janet and Mary Ann Doane. “The Female Spectator: Contexts and Directions.” CAMERA OBSCURA 20/21 (1990): 5-27.

Brand, Peg and Carolyn Korsmeyer, eds. “Feminism and Traditional Aesthetics.” Special issue of THE JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM 48.4 (Fall 1990).

Broude, Norma. IMPRESSIONISM: A FEMINIST READING: THE GENDERING OF ART, SCIENCE, AND NATURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Rizzoli, 1991.

Chadwick, Whitney. “Negotiating the Feminist Divide.” HERESIES 24 (1989): 23-28.

Chave, A.C. “O’Keeffe and the Masculine Gaze.” ART IN AMERICA 78 (January 1990): 114-125.

“Contemporary Quilts.” Special focus issue of GALLERIE: WOMEN ARTISTS 3. 1 (1990).

Daly, A. “Are Women Reclaiming or Reinforcing Sexist Imagery?” HIGH PERFORMANCE 12 (Summer 1989): 18-19.

Davis, Kathy. “Remaking the She-Devil: a Critical Look at Feminist Approaches to Beauty.” HYPATIA 6. 2 (Summer 1991): 21-43.

DeKoven, Marianne. RICH AND STRANGE: GENDER, HISTORY, MODERNISM. Princeton University Press, 1991.

Devereaux, Mary. “The Philosophical and Political Implications of the Feminist Critique of Aesthetic Autonomy.” In Carr, Glynis, ed. “TURNING THE CENTURY”: FEMINIST THEORY IN THE 1990S. Bucknell University Press, 1992.

Dotterer, Ronald and Susan Bowers, eds. POLITICS, GENDER AND THE ARTS. Susquehanna University Press, 1992.

Edmondson, Belinda. “Black Aesthetics, Feminist Aesthetics, and the Problems of Oppositional Discourse.” CULTURAL CRITIQUE 22 (Fall 1992): 75-98.

Evans, Patricia, ed. ISSUES IN FEMINIST FILM CRITICISM. Indiana University Press, 1990.

Fullbrook, Kate. FREEWOMEN: ETHICS AND AESTHETICS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY WOMEN’S FICTION. Temple University Press, 1990.

Gamman, Lorraine and Marshment, Margaret. THE FEMALE GAZE: WOMEN AS VIEWERS OF POPULAR CULTURE. Real Comet Press, 1989.

Garb, T. “The Forbidden Gaze.” ART IN AMERICA 79 (May 1991): 146-51.

Gates, Eugene. “The Female Voice: Sexual Aesthetics Revisited.” JOURNAL OF AESTHETIC EDUCATION 22. 4 (Winter 1988): 59-68.

Goettner-Abendroth, Heide. THE DANCING GODDESS. Krause, Maureen T. translator. Beacon Press, 1991.

Grigsby, Darcy Grimaldo. “Dilemmas of Visibility: Contemporary Women Artists’ Representations of Female Bodies.” Special issue of MICHIGAN QUARTERLY REVIEW 29.4 (Fall 1990): 584-618.

Hammond, Harmony. “Historias: Women Tinsmiths of New Mexico.” HERESIES 24 (1989): 38-43.

Hanna, Judith Lynne. DANCE, SEX AND GENDER: SIGNS OF IDENTITY, DOMINANCE, DEFIANCE AND DESIRE. University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Hein, Hilde and Carol Korsmeyer, eds. “Feminism and Aesthetics.” Special issue of HYPATIA 5. 2 (Summer 1990).

Jacobs, Lea and Patrice Petro, eds. “Feminism and Film History.” Special issue of CAMERA OBSCURA 22 (1990).

Jezic, D.P. WOMEN COMPOSERS: THE LOST TRADITION FOUND. Feminist Press, 1988. (Cassettes available.)

Jolicoeur, Nicole. “Feminism and Art Curatorial Practice.” CANADIAN WOMEN’S STUDIES 11. 1 (Spring 1990): 10-11.

Jones, S. “The Female Perspective.” MUSIC JOURNAL 91 (Fall 1991): 24-27.

Keeling, R. “Women in North American Indian Music.” NOTES OF THE SOCIETY FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY 47 (1991): 1148-49.

LaDuke, Betty. WOMEN ARTISTS: MULTICULTURAL VISIONS. Red Sea Press, 1992.

LaDuke, Betty. AFRICA THROUGH THE EYES OF WOMEN ARTISTS. Africa World Press, 1991.

Lauter, Estella. “Feminist Interart Criticism: A Contradiction in Terms?” Special issue of COLLEGE LITERATURE 19. 2 (June 1992): 98-105.

Lippard, Lucy. MIXED BLESSINGS: NEW ART IN A MULTICULTURAL AMERICA. Pantheon Books, 1990.

Lippard, Lucy R. “Both Sides Now.” HERESIES 24 (1989): 29-34.

Longhurst, Derek, ed. GENDER, GENRE, AND NARRATIVE PLEASURE. Unwin Hyman, 1989.

Lovely, D. “Speaking in Tongues: Women Artists and Modernism, 1900-1935.” ARTS REVIEW 42 (May 1990): 235-236.

MacDonald, S. “Demystifying the Female Body.” FILM QUARTERLY 45 (Fall 1991): 18-32.

“Making a Difference: Women in Museums.” MUSEUM NEWS 69 (July/August 1990): 37-50.

Maksymowicz, Virginia. “The Practice of Photography: Education, Gender and Ideology.” WOMEN ARTISTS NEWS 15. 3 (Fall 1990): 2-5.

Malti-Douglas, Fedwa. WOMAN’S BODY, WOMAN’S WORD: GENDER AND DISCOURSE IN ARABO-ISLAMIC WRITING. Princeton University Press, 1992.

McClary, S. “Feminine Endings: Music, Gender and Sexuality.” JOURNAL OF MUSIC 9. 3 (1991): 397-98.

“Native Women.” Special issue of Canadian Women’s Studies 10. 2&3(Summer/Fall 1989).

Parkerson, Michelle. “No More Mammy Stories: an Overview of Black Women Filmmakers.” GALLERIE 1989 Annual: 12-16.

Richards, Catherine. “Virtual Reality: the Rebirth of Pure Art?” WOMEN’S ART 41 (July/August 1991): 4-6.

Robinson, S. “Demarginalizing Women Photographers.” ARTWEEK 20 (July 1989): 11.

Ruppert, Jeanne, ed. GENDER: LITERARY AND CINEMATIC REPRESENTATION. Florida State University Press, 1990.

Russ, Joanna. “Anomalousness” and “Aesthetics.” Warhol and Herndl 194-211.

Schapiro, Miriam and Faith Wilding. “Cunts/Quilts/Consciousness.” HERESIES. 24 (1989): 6-10.

Scott, Bonnie Kime, ed. THE GENDER OF MODERNISM: A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY. Indiana University Press, 1990.

Seitz, B. “Songs, Identity and Women’s Liberation in Nicaragua.” LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC REVIEW 12. 1 (1991): 21-41.

Shapiro, A.D. “Music and Gender: Another Look.” THE SONNECK SOCIETY BULLETIN FOR AMERICAN MUSIC 17. 2 (1991): 58-60.

Slyomovics, Susan. “Ritual Grievance: the Language of Women?” WOMEN AND PERFORMANCE 5. 1 (1990).

Smith, Paul Julian. THE BODY HISPANIC: GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN SPANISH AND SPANISH-AMERICAN LITERATURE. Oxford University Press, 1989.

Tracy, Laura. “CATCHING THE DRIFT”: AUTHORITY, GENDER AND NARRATIVE STRATEGY IN FICTION. Rutgers University Press, 1989.

Villarejo, Amy. “Reconsidering Visual Pleasure.” NWSA JOURNAL 3 (Winter 1991): 110-116. Review essay.

Walker, Cheryl. “Feminist Literary Criticism and the Author.” CRITICAL INQUIRY 16. 3 (Spring 1990): 551-571.

Wallace, Michelle. “Variations on Negation and the Heresy of Black Feminist Creativity.” HERESIES 24 (1989): 69-75.

Warhol, Robyn R. and Diane Price Herndl, eds. FEMINISMS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM. Rutgers University Press, 1991.
Includes articles by Friedman, Gilbert and Gubar, Jones, Kolodny, Mulvey, Robinson, Showalter, Tompkins, and Zimmerman(listed in the annotated sections of this bibliography), and others.

Werden, Dyana. “‘Languaging’: an Image/Word Conjunction.” TRIVIA 16/17 (Fall 1990): 40-49.

Weston, Jennifer. “Thinking in Things: a Woman’s Symbol Language.” TRIVIA 16/17 (Fall 1990): 84-98.

Williams, L. “Firm Bodies: Gender, Genre and Excess.” FILM QUARTERLY 44 (Summer 1991): 2-13.

Wolff, Janet. FEMININE SENTENCES: ESSAYS ON WOMEN AND CULTURE. University of California, 1990. “Women’s Studies / Women’s Status.” College Music Society. NOTES 47 (1991): 801-02.

Young, G. “Letters From the Front Line: The State of the Art for Women Composers.” EAR 15 (Mar. 1991): 16-19.

Zimmerman, Bonnie. THE SAFE SEA OF WOMEN: LESBIAN FICTION 1969-1989. Beacon, 1990.