{"product_id":"in-visible-archives-queer-and-feminist-visual-culture-in-the-1980s-paperback-softback-9781517903244","title":"In Visible Archives; Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s (Paperback \/ softback) 9781517903244","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIn Visible Archives\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eQueer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMargaret Galvan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517903244\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 September 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages, 65 black and white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.368 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Margaret Galvan asks all the right questions about queer and feminist visual storytelling from the 1980s: Where were these works situated? How did communities use them? How have they been archived? Both commentary upon as well as an integral part of the activist project begun by the creators themselves, \u003ci\u003eIn Visible Archives\u003c\/i\u003e helps keep these remarkable works visible for us all.\"-Justin Hall, California College of the Arts, editor of \u003ci\u003eNo Straight Lines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"This wonderful book demonstrates the critical importance of community-based archives. Utilizing primary source materials, Margaret Galvan has produced an original and consequential contribution to the history of the feminist sex wars, and her attention to the visual aspects of those documents provides long overdue recognition to the period’s artists, designers, and activists.\"-Gayle Rubin, University of Michigan\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Margaret Galvan‘s \u003ci\u003eIn Visible Archives \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the political power of archival material in shaping feminist and queer futures. Applying archival studies and comics scholarship to work from the 1980s by visual artists including Alison Bechdel and Nan Goldin, Galvan’s timely book underscores the importance of visibility in ongoing activism and community-building.\"-\u003ci\u003eLSE Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eIn Visible Archives\u003c\/i\u003e provides a thought-provoking and grounded exploration of feminist and queer visual culture and archives from the American 1980s.\"-\u003ci\u003eArchives and Records\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Margaret Galvan’s \u003ci\u003eIn Visible Archives\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant work and a major step forward for the field...It should be read by anyone who studies comics from a feminist, queer, and\/or archival perspective, and indeed by any serious comics scholar.\"-\u003ci\u003eJournal of Graphic Novels and Comics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Galvan has written a galvanizing book that I think all archivists would benefit from reading. Not only is the subject matter important, but it is also well written and fun to read.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe American Archivist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"An extremely careful, deliberate, and impeccably researched book, which admirably advances the field by making neglected texts newly visible and illuminating neglected sympathies between contexts and modes of production that have seldom, if ever, been placed in conversation.\"-\u003ci\u003eInks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eIn Visible Archives\u003c\/i\u003e is not merely a text documenting the scholarly, cultural, and social role of archives, but is also a record that reminds readers of the vital and concrete work of activism.\"-\u003ci\u003eImageTexT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnalyzing how 1980s visual culture provided a vital space for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1982, the protests of antiporn feminists sparked the censorship of the \u003ci\u003eDiary of a Conference on Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e, a radical and sexually evocative image-text volume whose silencing became a symbol for the irresolvable feminist sex wars. \u003ci\u003eIn Visible Archives\u003c\/i\u003e documents the community networks that produced this resonant artifact and others, analyzing how visual culture provided a vital space for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Margaret Galvan explores a number of feminist and cultural touchstones-the feminist sex wars, the HIV\/AIDS crisis, the women in print movement, and countercultural grassroots periodical networks-and examines how visual culture interacts with these pivotal moments. She goes deep into the records to bring together a decade’s worth of research in grassroots and university archives that include comics, collages, photographs, drawings, and other image-text media produced by women, including Hannah Alderfer, Beth Jaker, Marybeth Nelson, Roberta Gregory, Lee Marrs, Alison Bechdel, Gloria AnzaldÚa, and Nan Goldin. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The art highlighted in \u003ci\u003eIn Visible Archives\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how women represented their bodies and sexualities on their own terms and created visibility for new, diverse identities, thus serving as blueprints for future activism and advocacy-work that is urgent now more than ever as LGBTQ+ and women’s rights face challenges and restrictions across the nation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contents \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Introduction: Making Visible Archives \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1. The Collage Activists: Hannah Alderfer, Beth Jaker, and Marybeth Nelson Frame the Feminist Sex Wars \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 2. The Comics Visionaries: Lee Marrs’s and Roberta Gregory’s Underground Feminism \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 3. The Newspaper Cartoonist: Alison Bechdel’s Queer Grassroots Networks \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 4. The Editor and Pedagogue: Gloria E. AnzaldÚa’s Public Drawing \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 5. The Photographer and Curator: Nan Goldin’s Witness to HIV\/AIDS \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Epilogue \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739852566808,"sku":"9781517903244","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/in-visible-archives-queer-and-feminist-visual-culture-in-the-1980s-paperback-softback-9781517903244","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}