Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender

An innovative analysis of 1960s abstract sculpture that draws on transgender studies and queer theory

Now back in print, Abstract Bodies was the first book to bridge the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies with the discipline of art history. Original and theoretically astute, it recasts debates around abstraction and figuration in 1960s art through a discussion of gender’s mutability and multiplicity. In that decade, sculpture purged representation and figuration but continued to...