Dead Women and Gendered Death in Visual Culture for MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture  

Dead Women and Gendered Death in Visual Culture for MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture

Co-edited by Devaleena Kundu, Bethan-Michael-Fox, and Khyati Tripathi, Dead Women and Gendered Death in Visual Culture dives into the factors behind the deeply genderedrepresentations of death and dead bodies in visual culture.

In a world dominated by the visual, the female dead body is glamorised and eroticised for consumption.This focus issueexamines the various ways one negotiates with visual representations of femininity in death and the intersectional politics at work behind representations frequently divesting the female body of its agency even in death.

The issue features scholars from across the globe with contributions exploring subjects such as fetishisation of femalecorpses, necrophiliac fantasies, spectrality and haunted bodies, feminist necropoetics, gendered deaths and wartime propaganda, and female suicides. The issue invites readers to critically engage with the question of looking and consuming gendered representations of death and dying in visual culture.

There is a foreword my Michele Aaron, as her work has informed many of the articles, and you can also hear her on the podcast .

There were 25 submissions overall, and in this episode you can hear from the editors and from 12 of the contributors.

You can find the issue here: https://www.maifeminism.com/dead-women-and-gendered-death-in-visual-culture/