The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice investigates the widely debated; deeply flawed yet influential concept of the uncanny through the lens of feminist theory and contemporary art practice. Not merely a subversive strategy but a cipher of the fraught but fertile dialogue between feminism and psychoanalysis; the uncanny makes an ideal vehicle for an arrangement marked by ambivalence and acts as a constant reminder that feminism and psychoanalysis are never quite at home with one another.The Feminist Uncanny begins by charting the uncanniness of femininity in foundational psychoanalytic texts by Ernst Jentsch; Sigmund Freud; Jacques Lacan and Mladen Dolar; and contextually introduces a range of feminist responses and appropriations by Heacute;legrave;ne Cixous; Julia Kristeva and Sarah Kofman; among others. The book also offers thematically organised interpretations of famous artworks and practices informed by feminism; including Judy Chicagos Dinner Party; Faith Ringgolds story quilts and Susan Hillers paraconceptualism; as well as less well-known practice; such as the Womens Postal Art Even (Feministo) and the photomontages of Maud Sulter. Dead (lexicalised) metaphors; unhomely domesticity; identity and (dis)identification; and the tension between family stories and arts histories are examined in and from the perspective of different artistic and critical practices; illustrating different aspects of the feminist uncanny.Through a partisan yet comprehensive critical review of the fascinating concept of the uncanny; The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice proposes a new concept; the feminist uncanny; which it upholds as one of the most enduring legacies of the Womens Liberation Movement in contemporary art theory and practice.
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