Focusing on the representation of women, Nancy Spero's artwork features mythological, cinematic, and suffering female figures. Drawing inspiration from both classical and modern sources, she creates collages and imprints that showcase contemporary goddesses on elongated, papyrus-like friezes, transforming museum walls into dynamic narratives.
The first biography of Julia Kristeva-one of the most important intellectuals of the last 100 years. It connects her personal journey with the history of her ideas, clarifies her legacy within the context of postwar European thought, and demonstrates her crucial importance for the future of interdisciplinary thought--
Alice Jardine charts the territories and landscapes of contemporary French thought, focusing on such concepts as "woman" and "the feminine," and relating them to the problem of modernity. Interdisciplinary in her approach, she confronts and addresses important psychoanalytic, philosophical, and fictional texts that are largely the work of male writers.