Urban Feminist Visuality in Contemporary Pakistani Art traces feminist rebellion within urban Pakistan's visual discourse. Using social, cultural and art historical theories, and through a postcolonial and non-western feminist lens, this book envisions an alternative art history that gives credence to cultural, historical, and even individual complexities to gender representation of urban Pakistani women. The study unpacks artworks and visual media that include histories of ancestral wisdom, migratory anxieties, intergenerational feminist struggles, and (neo)colonial legacies. This book engages with female artists who strive to create a nuanced, gendered visuality by challenging and destabilizing monolithic representations, focusing on artistic responses to gender politics that emerged after 2001. The result is a disruption of the binary that has been formed around gendered brown bodies. This book is ideal for researchers and students in visual studies, cultural studies, media studies, gender studies, and sociology.
| ISBN: | 9781041036005 |
| Publication date: | 12th October 2026 |
| Author: | Kanwal Syed |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Art History |
| Genres: |
The arts: general topics History of art Regional / International studies |
Urban Feminist Visuality in Contemporary Pakistani Art traces feminist rebellion within urban Pakistan's visual discourse. Using social, cultural and art historical theories, and through a postcolonial and non-western feminist lens, this book envisions an alternative art history that gives credence to cultural, historical, and even individual complexities to gender representation of urban Pakistani women. The study unpacks artworks and visual media that include histories of ancestral wisdom, migratory anxieties, intergenerational feminist struggles, and (neo)colonial legacies. This book engages with female artists who strive to create a nuanced, gendered visuality by challenging and destabilizing monolithic representations, focusing on artistic responses to gender politics that emerged after 2001. The result is a disruption of the binary that has been formed around gendered brown bodies. This book is ideal for researchers and students in visual studies, cultural studies, media studies, gender studies, and sociology.
Urban Feminist Visuality in Contemporary Pakistani Art features in the following genres: The arts: general topics, History of art, Regional / International studies
Urban Feminist Visuality in Contemporary Pakistani Art is available in Hardback
Urban Feminist Visuality in Contemporary Pakistani Art was written by Kanwal Syed and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Urban Feminist Visuality in Contemporary Pakistani Art has 272 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Research in Art History series
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