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Visual and Embodied Politics

Feminist Activism and Art in Peru

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Visual and Embodied Politics

Feminist Activism and Art in Peru

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By analyzing contemporary feminist politics in Peru through the lens of artistic and creative practices, this book provides a critical example of feminist struggle in a context of conservative backlash and political crisis.

The Peruvian feminist movement offers a clear illustration of the relationship between art and contemporary activism. Yet it has not previously received significant attention in the literature on Latin American feminist movements. Visual and Embodied Politics offers a novel framework for analyzing the role of art in activism: not just as a strategy or form of expression, but also as a way of understanding the world. The strategies used by contemporary activists include illustration, performance, embroidery, video production, photography, dance and more. This book's analysis of these activists and their strategies to address political crises, gendered violence, and reproductive injustice provides new understandings of activism, and what social movements can learn from feminist activists.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Theorising visual and embodied feminist politics
3. Alerta! Alerta! Alerta que caminan mujeres feministas por las calles de Lima : feminism in Peru from centralism to the margins
4. Ahora que estamos juntas, ahora que si nos ven: feminist symbols in the digital borderlands
5. Poniendo la cuerpa : feminist bodies on the line
6. Somos las hijas de las indígenas que no pudiste esterilizar: politics of representation
7. Conclusion

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Dec 10 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Pages 256
ISBN 9798765144749
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 15 bw images
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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