Margaret Galvan, "In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
In\xa0In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s\xa0(U Minnesota Press, 2023), Margaret Galvan explores a number of feminist and cultural touchstones\u2014the feminist sex wars, the HIV/AIDS crisis, the women in print movement, and countercultural grassroots periodical networks\u2014and examines how visual culture interacts with these pivotal moments. She goes deep into the records to bring together a decade\u2019s worth of research in grassroots and university archives that include comics, collages, photographs, drawings, and other image-text media produced by women, including Hannah Alderfer, Beth Jaker, Marybeth Nelson, Roberta Gregory, Lee Marrs, Alison Bechdel, Gloria Anzald\xfaa, and Nan Goldin.\nThrough all of this, Galvan documents the community networks that produced visual culture, analyzing how this material provided a vital space for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities. The art highlighted in\xa0In Visible Archives\xa0demonstrates how women represented their bodies and sexualities on their own terms and created visibility for new, diverse identities, thus serving as blueprints for future activism and advocacy\u2014work that is urgent now more than ever as LGBTQ+ and women\u2019s rights face challenges and restrictions across the nation.\nJen Hoyer\xa0is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at\xa0CUNY New York City College of Technology. Jen edits for\xa0Partnership Journal\xa0and organizes with the\xa0TPS Collective. She is co-author of\xa0What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom\xa0and\xa0The Social Movement Archive.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies