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082 00 305.42 ROS
100 1 Rose, Jacqueline,|eauthor.
245 10 Women in dark times /|cJacqueline Rose.
260 London :|bBloomsbury,|c2014.
300 xii, 339 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
|billustrations (some color) ;|c25 cm
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-324) and
index.
520 Jacqueline Rose's new book begins with three remarkable
women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-
Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family
tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer
Marilyn Monroe. Together these women have a shared story
to tell, as they blaze a trail across some of the most
dramatic events of the last century - revolution,
totalitarianism, the American dream. Enraged by injustice,
they are each in touch with what is most painful about
being human, bound together by their willingness to bring
the unspeakable to light. Taking the argument into the
present are today's women, courageous individuals involved
in some of the cruellest realities of our times. Grappling
with the reality of honour killing - notably through the
stories of Shafilea Ahmed, Fadime Sahindal and Heshu Yones
- Rose argues that the work of feminism is far from done.
In the final three chapters, she celebrates the work of
three brilliant contemporary artists - Esther Shalev-Gerz,
Yael Bartana and Therese Oulton - whose work grows out of
an unflinching engagement with all that is darkest in the
modern world. Women in Dark Times shows us how these
visionary women offer a new template for feminism. Taking
their stand against the iniquities of our times, they
tread a path between public and private pain, confronting
us with what we need most urgently, but also often, cannot
bear to see.
600 0 Shalev-Gerz, Esther.
600 0 Bartana, Yael.
600 0 Oulton, Therese.
600 0 Luxemburg, Rosa,|d1871-1919.
600 0 Monroe, Marilyn,|d1926-1962.
600 0 Salamon, Charlotte.
650 0 Women heroes.
650 0 Feminism.
