Suffragettes to She-Devils: Women's Liberation and Beyond - Hardcover

Costa, Guido; Goldin, Nan; Juncosa, Enrique

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0714836192 ISBN 13: 9780714836195

Publisher: Phaidon Press, 1997

Synopsis

The fight for women's rights worldwide has been one of the great power struggles of the twentieth century, and its graphic expression has been central to this battle. Suffragettes to She-Devils captures the excitement of women's revolutionary campaigns and movements from the vibrant visual identity of the militant suffragettes, through the humour and sniping of the cartoons of Women's Lib in the sixties, to the virtual-reality explorations of end-of-the-century cyberfeminists. It studies the developing role of graphics and related media in the struggle for women's liberation, focusing on the way women have used graphics as a tool for their empowerment - finding a voice through visual or graphic means.

About this title

Review:

Not a history book, but a compilation of sparkling, hard-hitting graphics on the international women's movement drawn from the fine arts, fashion, and advertising to comics, broadsheets, and cyberart. Liz McQuiston's vivid text and selections center on how design furthered campaigns exalting or denigrating a woman's place in the world. Biting humor and anger crop up throughout. An automaker's billboard boasting "If it were a lady it would get its bottom pinched" draws the memorable spray-painted response: "If this lady was a car, she'd run you down." Voting rights, abuse, girl power, abortion, and parity are a few of the subjects touched on in this wide-ranging, freewheeling book on design and propaganda.

About the Author:

Liz McQuiston was previously head of Graphic Art and Design at the Royal College of Art in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0714836192
• ISBN 13: 9780714836195
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240