Introduction: New Feminist Theories of Visual Culture

Doyle, Jennifer & Jones, Amelia. (2006). Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 31(3), 607-615.

Doyle and Jones pay attention to the intersectionality of gendered experience which are carved by sex, class, race, ethnicity, nationality, etc. by moving beyond rigid boundaries of a single discipline, thus calling a multidimensional and fluid understanding of femininity. Introductions to Eve Oishi's and Lisa Collin's essays draw my attention. Accodring to the authors, Oishi's emphasis on identification as a fluid process rather than a position commits to partial and ambivalent identification, which composes the power of the spectator. Besides, Collins's article about black arts and feminist arts movement calls the intersections between gender and sexuality and race and ethnicity, the authors write. Collins's her own words,

"many pivotal leaders in the largely parallel movements were so deeply desirous of unity based on shared experience that they either hesitated or refused to acknowledge and embrace the
complex diversity of their constituents because they perceived the true recognition of diversity as potentially divisive” (719)

The authors define "intersectionality" as the political imperative that discourses addressing social oppression acknowledge the complexity of how identity actually functions as we navigate the world and engage with others.

"Activists Who Yearn for Art That Transforms: Parallels in the Black Arts and Feminist Art Movements in the United States" Lisa Gail Collins.