Abstract
Hock, Beáta. 2013. Gendered Artistic Positions and Social Voices - Politics, Cinema and the Visual Arts in State-Socialist and Post-Socialist Hungary. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 284 pp. illus. Reviewed by Lilla Tőke, Assistant Professor, City University of New York, LaGuardia Community College
Highlights
With the arrival of the Third Wave Feminism and postcolonial theory in the 1980s, the “politics of location”
As of the early 1990s Central and Eastern European scholars have joined the ongoing struggle to challenge the universalizing tendencies of Western feminist thought; Beáta Hock’s book, Gendered Artistic Positions and Social Voices - Politics, Cinema, and the Visual Arts in State-Socialist and Post-Socialist Hungary, joins the effort to keep gender as a valuable analytical category while moving away from essentialist assumptions about women’s experiences and needs across the world
The first part of the book consists of three chapters presenting key concepts and theories in feminist scholarship that Hock plans to examine in the context of Hungarian visual art
Summary
With the arrival of the Third Wave Feminism and postcolonial theory in the 1980s, the “politics of location” Gendered Artistic Positions and Social Voices Politics, Cinema and the Visual Arts in State-Socialist and PostSocialist Hungary.
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