Gender and Identity (Reinventing Textiles) (v. 2)

The Reinventing Textiles series offers an important new forum for critical discussion of the multiple strands of inspiration informing contemporary textile art. For this second volume, fourteen internationally renowned artist, writers, curators and theorists have been invited to shed light on isssues surrounding gender, the body and identity. Their contributions, drawing on such varied disciplines as psychoanalysis, cultural and literary theory and post-colonial debate, are challenging and illuminating, and make this book an essential purchase for everybody engaged with textile art.