Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s

by Nancy Princenthal

Book Overview

The 1970s was a time of deep division and newfound freedoms. Galvanized by The Second Sex and The Feminine Mystique, the civil rights movement and the March on Washington, a new generation put their bodies on the line to protest injustice. Still, even in the heart of certain resistance movements, sexual violence against women had reached epidemic levels. Initially, it went largely unacknowledged. But some bold women artists and activists, including...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500023050
• ISBN13: 9780500023051
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.4"