Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History - cover image

Copyright

Deborah Willis; Ellyn Toscano; Kalia Brooks Nelson; Copyright of individual chapters is maintained by the chapters’ authors.

Published On

2019-03-08

ISBN

Paperback978-1-78374-565-4
Hardback978-1-78374-566-1
PDF978-1-78374-567-8
HTML978-1-80064-572-1
XML978-1-78374-674-3
EPUB978-1-78374-568-5
MOBI978-1-78374-569-2

Language

  • English

Print Length

668 pages (xxx+638)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 46 x 234 mm(6.14" x 1.83" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 49 x 234 mm(6.14" x 1.94" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback2762g (97.43oz)
Hardback3181g (112.21oz)

Media

Illustrations156
Tables5

OCLC Number

1090549391

LCCN

2019452866

BIC

  • AG
  • AJ
  • JFFN
  • JFS

BISAC

  • SOC008000
  • SOC007000
  • SOC028000

LCC

  • JV6347

Keywords

  • collection of essays
  • women
  • migration
  • women’s experiences of migration
  • women’s perspectives
  • writing
  • photography
  • art
  • film

Women and Migration

Responses in Art and History

  • Deborah Willis (editor)
  • Ellyn Toscano (editor)
  • Kalia Brooks Nelson (editor)
The essays in this book chart how women’s profound and turbulent experiences of migration have been articulated in writing, photography, art and film. As a whole, the volume gives an impression of a wide range of migratory events from women’s perspectives, covering the Caribbean Diaspora, refugees and slavery through the various lenses of politics and war, love and family.
The contributors, which include academics and artists, offer both personal and critical points of view on the artistic and historical repositories of these experiences. Selfies, motherhood, violence and Hollywood all feature in this substantial treasure-trove of women’s joy and suffering, disaster and delight, place, memory and identity.
This collection appeals to artists and scholars of the humanities, particularly within the social sciences; though there is much to recommend it to creatives seeking inspiration or counsel on the issue of migratory experiences.

Endorsements

'Women and Migration' is not only rich in detailing women’s lives, daily life, and human agency in addition to memory, emotion, and culture but also multidisciplinary and a welcome focus on women’s diverse experiences with migration from the perspective of class, ethnicity, ‘race’, religion, and sexual identity. I particularly like the narratives showcasing women and migrations from political and geographical perspectives with regard to the fluidity and representations of borders and border crossings. It is especially relevant given the varied responses to migration in Europe and North America today. Their ‘voices’ rise from the pages of the manuscript!

Dr Mary Anne Poutanen

McGill University

Reviews

'Women and Migration' fonde una molteplicità di sguardi sulla complessità di un fenomeno e, attraverso le sue pagine, immerge il lettore nell’universo delle migrazioni. ['Women and Migration' fuses multiple glances on the complexity of the phenomenon and, through its pages, immerses the reader in the universe of migration.]

Laura Amigo

Studi Emigrazione (0039-2936), vol. 218, 2020.

Contents

  • Ellyn Toscano

4. Migrations

(pp. 47–54)
  • Kathy Engel

5. Carrying Memory

(pp. 57–70)
  • Marianne Hirsch
  • Wangechi Mutu
  • Sama Alshaibi

13. A Different Lens

(pp. 155–160)
  • Maaza Mengiste
  • Kellie Jones
  • Vanessa Pérez-Rosario
  • Cheryl Finley
  • Misan Sagay
  • Deborah Willis
  • Ellyn Toscano
  • Kalia Brooks Nelson

Contributors

Deborah Willis

(editor)
University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at New York University

Ellyn Toscano

(editor)
Executive Director at New York University Florence

Kalia Brooks Nelson

(editor)
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Photography and Imaging at New York University