Performing Feminism Self/Maintenance: in Contemporary Art and Society

Investigating a wide range of sources, from Simone de Beauvoir to ancient clerics, this book analyses maintenance and self-maintenance art through the lens of feminism and post-feminism. Looking at the subject in contemporary art practice, and reflected in contemporary society today, Dana Leslie succinctly describes how it is to be a woman from a millenial perspective. From the feminist art movement of the 1970s, many female artists turned to performance art to explore and critique the gend...