Women as creators and subjects across disciplines and cultures

Abstract

This book crosses multiple world cultures as the chapters highlight both women as creators (by) and women as subjects (about). Chapter topics address widely varying socio-cultural facets of multi-cultures from various historical, sociological, artistic and literary perspectives. The title, Women as Creators and Subjects, in that order, summarizes the content of the book, which begins with commentary on women as creators and moves to elucidating about women to establish a framework. Themes range from power and politics in regards to Aztec women's bodies, roles of historical indigenous, Spanish, Latin America, and Latinx women, and female participation in development efforts in the Global South of studio art, i.e., visual representations of women by women, as well as of female muses for male artists - and critical articles about all manner of works and genres literally by a litany of women artists and writers, both in literature and film, as well as women as represented in works by males, all from across the Middle East, Global South, Europe and the Americas.

Contents

Preface -- Part I. Women as creators: Introduction to original works created by women: essay and short story ; The metamorphosis of exile: generations of women / Rose Mary Salum, translated from Spanish by Debra D. Andrist ; That's how simple it is / Rose Mary Salum, translated by Debra D. Andrist ; The pigeon lady / Gwendolyn Díaz-Ridgeway ; Introduction to literary critique of works by women creating as authors: film, prose: novel and short story, and poetry ; On legends of the ordinary: Gloria Rolando's early films / Haiqing Sun ; The collective conscience in two works by Isabel Allende: from The house of the spirits/La casa de los espíritus to Violet/Violeta / Elizabeth White Coscio ; Concha Urquiza (1910-1944): mystic, erotic, and rebel poetry in the framework of the dissonances of the poet's life / Jorge Chavarro -- Part II. Women as creators and subjects: Introduction to studio art and the visual representation of women: subjects and/or muses and the literary representation of women ; Picasso's feminine other: Olga, Marie-Thérèse and Dora / Enrique Mallén ; From the harpy to the heroine: evolution of a feminist trend in the works of the Syrian dramatist Sadallah Wannous / Samar Zahrawi ; Introduction to the power: roles and perceptions of women in politics, religion, and energy/ecology/economics ; Female bodies and the rise of Huitzilopochtli in the Aztec world / Jeanne Gillespie ; Comparing and contrasting the notions of plurality and intercultural intersections in Hannah Arendt and Gloria Anzaldúa / John Francis Burke ; An analysis of power in gender, energy and sustainable development (GED) framework / Aritra Chakrabarty -- Conclusions and reflections.