Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism

by Laura Wexler

Book Overview

Laura Wexler presents an incisive analysis of how the first American female photojournalists contributed to a "domestic vision" that reinforced the imperialism and racism of turn-of-the-century America. These women photographers, white and middle class, constructed images of war disguised as peace through a mechanism Wexler calls the "averted eye," which had its origins in the private domain of family photography.

Wexler examines the work of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807848832
• ISBN13: 9780807848838
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"