Price explores how images of dead women were used in government propaganda during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
...Critical Reflection
Always radical, always engaged, always personal. Either scholarly or polemic writing that engages with feminist visual culture and feminist theory and history from a contemporary perspective. Our authors provide ground for reassessment of existing paradigms or subversive recuperation and reinterpretation.
Golovchenko offers a queer reconsideration of two Pre-Raphaelite paintings through their symbolism of water, vegetation, and the female body.
...Pedersen demonstrates how Whiteness shapes the trope of the beautiful dead girl/woman and how it has been used to privilege white victims.
...Comparing two deaths of female characters in superhero media, Stephens explores the relationship between embodied death and identity.
...Widegren explores death and childhood femininity when the ‘outsider’ artist Henry Darger’s work on girls is transformed into a play.
...Cline examines the negrophilic desires of the ‘Vampire of Montparnasse’ as an illustration of the Gothic fetish for women’s deaths.
...Arguing that women in cinema bear rather than make meaning, Lake asks what happens when a woman’s death is unseen.
...Analysing European female-directed films, Horner compares cinematic representations of women’s suicide with clinical literature.
...Using poetic performance, Swingler shows how dead white women in Nocturnal Animals are haunted by colonial and extractivist violence.
...Deboeck investigates the trope of the kept mother’s corpse and how, despite the maternal blame, it resists the male gaze.
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WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey