Description

Visual Culture is ubiquitous and helps to circulate knowledge and understanding about different cultures. However, it also requires 'reading comprehension': the artist's intention, the cultural frameworks, codes and contexts need be understood; images have their own subversive potential. New technologies tend to be used in areas defined as masculine, such as the 'public sphere', workplaces and further gendered power structures. So how do women make themselves visible in this male-centric contexts? Is there a shift in masculine identities? The volume takes up examples and case studies from Africa and Europe, contextualizes them, introduces players with visual materials in different fields and makes gender structures visible. The contributions include research from different media of visual presentation: artworks in many different forms, photo and film, literature, dance performances and museum exhibitions, and discusses social practices. The contributors' backgrounds range from West- and Central Africa, the Caribbean and Europe, most of them far-reaching in global contexts. Bea Lundt is Professor em. for History at the Europe University Flensburg (Germany).Gertrude Nkrumah is a lecturer at the Department of History Education, University of Education, Winneba (Ghana).