Gestures
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Ana Mendieta
Anna Kavan
Anne Boyer
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art writing
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experimental writing
feminist art
forthcoming
Francesca Woodman
gesture
in-betweenness
interdisciplinarity
intersectional feminism
Laurent Berlant
Layli Long Soldier
Le Nemesiache
minorness
Pati Hill
Renee Gladman
Product details
- ISBN 9781526198198
- Weight: 661g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 23 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Gestures: A body of work is a cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to ‘gesture’ that considers the term’s complex registers across embodied, aesthetic and political scenes. Attending to gestural movements, languages, feelings and communications, the book argues that gestures can unsettle gendered, sexed and racialised relations, norms and affects. Contributors activate the lens of gesture to offer innovative readings of art and literary works from the 1960s onwards and in transnational contexts. Experiments in art writing and autotheory reflect on the entanglement of the body, gesture and feminist practice. The book proposes that gesture be rethought as a mode of feminist practice that includes art, writing, performance and theory. Mixing disciplines, forms, genres and voices, these contributions and the book’s gestural structure offer a bold intervention into the conventions of critical writing.
Alice Butler is Tutor (Research) in the School of Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art.
Nell Osborne is an independent scholar and artist.
Hilary White is a Postdoctoral Fellow in English at Humboldt University of Berlin.
