The Political Body Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America

Reviews

"Places revolutionary activism and explicitly political practices at the center of art created by women in the region. . . . The author’s recollection of the abortion rights movement’s activity in Argentina, which successfully won its legalization in the country two years ago, resonates especially strongly as reproductive rights remain under attack."—Hyperallergic

"A nuanced examination of the way female-identifying artists responded to the social and political movements of the late twentieth century and how their art and performance transformed in relation to diversifying frameworks of feminist thought."—The Latin Americanist

"Andrea Giunta, one of the most insightful and forward looking intellectuals working today, has created an extensive network of ideas and observations about the multiple roles played by women artists, critics, curators, and gallerists throughout Latin America. The Political Body is essential reading for all connected in any way to the world of contemporary art."—Edward J. Sullivan, Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the History of Art, New York University

"Since the early 1990s, Andrea Giunta has been a pioneer scholar on feminist art in Latin America. In her hands, this book is neither a genealogy nor a History with capital H; instead, in its specificity, it highlights the forms of resistance, denouncement, and emancipative creative imagination by women artists in the context of gender, social, and racial oppression in Latin America. By combining a constellation of microhistories and academic research with Giunta’s own first-person voice, the book counters stereotypes, racial discrimination, marginalization, and the invisibilization of women, and instead foregrounds the transformational role of feminist art and politics since the mid-twentieth century."—Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, independent curator and art historian