Rosemary Betterton
Biographic Data
| ID | 957610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosemary Betterton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosemary |
| FAMILY NAME | Betterton |
| SIGNATURE | BETTERTON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Art, Sex and Eugenics
Louise Bourgeois, Ageing, and Maternal Bodies
This article explores late works by contemporary artist Louise Bourgeois that illuminate current concerns about ageing maternal bodies and the ambivalent responses of fear and loathing that they provoke. In 2003, Louise Bourgeois made an installation for the Freud Museum in Vienna entitled The Reticent Child, on the subject of her own earlier pregnancy and birth of her son, one of several works featuring maternity and fertility which Bourgeois ha…
Local/Global
Promising Monsters
This paper engages with theories of the monstrous maternal in feminist philosophy to explore how examples of visual art practice by Susan Hiller, Marc Quinn, Alison Lapper, Tracey Emin, and Cindy Sherman disrupt maternal ideals in visual culture through differently imagined body schema. By examining instances of the pregnant body represented in relation to maternal subjectivity, disability, abortion, and "prosthetic" pregnancy, it asks whether th…
Promising Monsters
This paper engages with theories of the monstrous maternal in feminist philosophy to explore how examples of visual art practice by Susan Hiller, Marc Quinn, Alison Lapper, Tracey Emin, and Cindy Sherman disrupt maternal ideals in visual culture through differently imagined body schema. By examining instances of the pregnant body represented in relation to maternal subjectivity, disability, abortion, and “prosthetic” pregnancy, it asks whether th…
Prima gravida
Over the past decade, representations of pregnant embodiment, foetal imagery and the maternal body have become the subject of intense feminist investigation across fields as diverse as philosophy, science and cultural studies. This body of work represents a sustained intervention in the politics of reproduction and the politics of representation that builds on earlier feminist discourses on motherhood. Within this article, I want to address the l…
An Intimate Distance
An Intimate Distance considers a wide range of visual images of women in the context of current debates which centre around the body, including reproductive science, questions of ageing and death and the concept of 'body horror' in relation to food, consumption and sex. A feminist reclamation of these images suggests how the permeable boundaries between the female body and technology, nature and culture are being crossed in the work of women arti…
Looking on
This collection of articles by feminist writers explores the different ways in which images of women in advertising, magazines, fine art, fashion, and pornography continue to influence commonly-held perceptions of femininity and female sexuality. They show how these images are constantly being reworked and remade in changing cultural and social contexts. Developing original and exciting connections between visual arts and the media Rosemary Bette…
A Question of Difference
Journal Article A Question of Difference Get access Rosemary Betterton Rosemary Betterton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 26, Issue 3-4, May-August 1985, Pages 102–109, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/26.3-4.102 Published: 01 May 1985
How do Women Look? The Female Nude in the Work of Suzanne Valadon
The representation of women in the visual media has become a crucial area of concern for the Women's Movement over the last few years. Most energies have been put, quite rightly, into countering the stereotyping and sexism of media images. Evidence of how wide such concerns have become is shown by the very useful booklet published by the Trade Union Congress this year, Images of Inequality: The Portrayal of Women in the Media and Advertising (TUC…
Promising Monsters
This paper engages with theories of the monstrous maternal in feminist philosophy to explore how examples of visual art practice by Susan Hiller, Marc Quinn, Alison Lapper, Tracey Emin, and Cindy Sherman disrupt maternal ideals in visual culture through differently imagined body schema. By examining instances of the pregnant body represented in relation to maternal subjectivity, disability, abortion, and “prosthetic” pregnancy, it asks whether th…
Prima gravida
Over the past decade, representations of pregnant embodiment, foetal imagery and the maternal body have become the subject of intense feminist investigation across fields as diverse as philosophy, science and cultural studies. This body of work represents a sustained intervention in the politics of reproduction and the politics of representation that builds on earlier feminist discourses on motherhood. Within this article, I want to address the l…
How do Women Look? The Female Nude in the Work of Suzanne Valadon
The representation of women in the visual media has become a crucial area of concern for the Women's Movement over the last few years. Most energies have been put, quite rightly, into countering the stereotyping and sexism of media images. Evidence of how wide such concerns have become is shown by the very useful booklet published by the Trade Union Congress this year, Images of Inequality: The Portrayal of Women in the Media and Advertising (TUC…
A Question of Difference
Journal Article A Question of Difference Get access Rosemary Betterton Rosemary Betterton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 26, Issue 3-4, May-August 1985, Pages 102–109, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/26.3-4.102 Published: 01 May 1985
A Question of Difference
Journal Article A Question of Difference Get access Rosemary Betterton Rosemary Betterton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 26, Issue 3-4, May-August 1985, Pages 102–109, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/26.3-4.102 Published: 01 May 1985
How do Women Look? The Female Nude in the Work of Suzanne Valadon
The representation of women in the visual media has become a crucial area of concern for the Women's Movement over the last few years. Most energies have been put, quite rightly, into countering the stereotyping and sexism of media images. Evidence of how wide such concerns have become is shown by the very useful booklet published by the Trade Union Congress this year, Images of Inequality: The Portrayal of Women in the Media and Advertising (TUC…
Looking on
This collection of articles by feminist writers explores the different ways in which images of women in advertising, magazines, fine art, fashion, and pornography continue to influence commonly-held perceptions of femininity and female sexuality. They show how these images are constantly being reworked and remade in changing cultural and social contexts. Developing original and exciting connections between visual arts and the media Rosemary Bette…
An Intimate Distance
An Intimate Distance considers a wide range of visual images of women in the context of current debates which centre around the body, including reproductive science, questions of ageing and death and the concept of 'body horror' in relation to food, consumption and sex. A feminist reclamation of these images suggests how the permeable boundaries between the female body and technology, nature and culture are being crossed in the work of women arti…
Prima gravida
Over the past decade, representations of pregnant embodiment, foetal imagery and the maternal body have become the subject of intense feminist investigation across fields as diverse as philosophy, science and cultural studies. This body of work represents a sustained intervention in the politics of reproduction and the politics of representation that builds on earlier feminist discourses on motherhood. Within this article, I want to address the l…
Promising Monsters
This paper engages with theories of the monstrous maternal in feminist philosophy to explore how examples of visual art practice by Susan Hiller, Marc Quinn, Alison Lapper, Tracey Emin, and Cindy Sherman disrupt maternal ideals in visual culture through differently imagined body schema. By examining instances of the pregnant body represented in relation to maternal subjectivity, disability, abortion, and "prosthetic" pregnancy, it asks whether th…
Promising Monsters
This paper engages with theories of the monstrous maternal in feminist philosophy to explore how examples of visual art practice by Susan Hiller, Marc Quinn, Alison Lapper, Tracey Emin, and Cindy Sherman disrupt maternal ideals in visual culture through differently imagined body schema. By examining instances of the pregnant body represented in relation to maternal subjectivity, disability, abortion, and “prosthetic” pregnancy, it asks whether th…
Local/Global
Louise Bourgeois, Ageing, and Maternal Bodies
This article explores late works by contemporary artist Louise Bourgeois that illuminate current concerns about ageing maternal bodies and the ambivalent responses of fear and loathing that they provoke. In 2003, Louise Bourgeois made an installation for the Freud Museum in Vienna entitled The Reticent Child, on the subject of her own earlier pregnancy and birth of her son, one of several works featuring maternity and fertility which Bourgeois ha…
Art, Sex and Eugenics
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Abortion (3 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)