The social marketplace for new and used books.

Get started

Learn to sell
Learn to buy
Buy textbooks
Sign up
Buy a giftcard
For the authors

Support

Help
Track a shipment
Terms of use
Privacy policy
Cookies policy

Company

About us
Work with us
Give feedback
Categories

Contact us

Fast delivery with

Safe payments by

Visa
Mastercard
Vipps
Klarna

© 2026 Bookis AS

English

  1. Home
  5. Gender studies: women and girls
  1. Home
  3. Genres
  7. Gender studies: women and girls
Unspeakable Acts

Hardcover • 2019 • English

Unspeakable Acts

By Nancy Princenthal

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌

About the book

A groundbreaking exploration of how women artists of the 1970s combined art and protest to make sexual violence visible, creating a new kind of art in the process. 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 reac...Show more

Gender studies, gender groups
Gender studies: women and girls

Book details

ISBN

9780500023051

Publisher

National Geographic Books

Published year

2019

Language

English

Original title

Unspeakable Acts

Format

Hardcover

Shippping and returns

Shipping

Used books are shipped by the seller. Expected delivery after package is sent is 2-4 days.

Returns

Contact the seller after delivery.

Reviews · 0

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

You might also like

A Hymn to Life Shame Has to Change Sides

A Hymn to Life Shame Has to Change Sides

Gisèle Pelicot

Men Explain Things to Me

Men Explain Things to Me

Rebecca Solnit

Art Monsters Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

Art Monsters Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

Lauren Elkin

On Violence

On Violence

Hannah Arendt

Good and Mad The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

Good and Mad The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

Rebecca Traister

Why have there been no great women artists?

Why have there been no great women artists?

Linda Nochlin

Everybody

Everybody

Old Mistresses

Old Mistresses

Rozsika Parker

When I Dare to be Powerful

When I Dare to be Powerful

Audre Lorde

The Art of Feminism

The Art of Feminism

Ninth Street Women Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler

Ninth Street Women Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler

Mary Gabriel

Madness, Violence, and Power

Madness, Violence, and Power

Females

Females

Andrea Long Chu

Representing Women

Representing Women

Linda Nochlin

Love and Resistance - Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era

Love and Resistance - Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era

Roxane Gay

Things we didn't talk about when i was a girl

Things we didn't talk about when i was a girl

Jeannie Vanasco

How to Suppress Women's Writing

How to Suppress Women's Writing

Joanna Russ

The Mother of All Questions

The Mother of All Questions

Rebecca Solnit

Women as Wartime Rapists

Women as Wartime Rapists

Laura Sjoberg

Regarding the pain of others

Regarding the pain of others

Susan Sontag

Scum Manifesto

Scum Manifesto

Valerie Solanas

A Feminist Ethnomusicology

A Feminist Ethnomusicology

Ellen Koskoff

Conversation Pieces Community and Communication in Modern Art

Conversation Pieces Community and Communication in Modern Art

Grant H. Kester

Women, Art, and Society

Women, Art, and Society

Whitney Chadwick

Living Dolls

Living Dolls

Natasha Walter

Performance Art - Froom Futurism to the Present

Performance Art - Froom Futurism to the Present

Roselee Goldberg

Violence Expressed: An Anthropological Approach

Violence Expressed: An Anthropological Approach

Maria Six-Hohenbalken, Nerina Weiss

Girl Power The Nineties Revolution in Music

Girl Power The Nineties Revolution in Music

Marisa Meltzer

Speak

Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson

Agenda Setting, the UN, and NGOs : Gender Violence and Reproductive Rights

Agenda Setting, the UN, and NGOs : Gender Violence and Reproductive Rights

Jutta M. Joachim

Rape

Rape

Joyce Carol Oates

The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle

The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle

T.V. Reed

Shaping Abortion Discourse

Shaping Abortion Discourse

Myra Marx Ferree

The Vagina Monologues

The Vagina Monologues

Eve Ensler

The Vagina Monologues The V-Day Edition

The Vagina Monologues The V-Day Edition

Eve Ensler

Shattering Silence

Shattering Silence

Begoña Aretxaga

The Threshold of the Visible World

The Threshold of the Visible World

Kaja Silverman

The Sex Revolts

The Sex Revolts

S. Reynolds

Sex and Violence: Issues in Representation and Experience

Sex and Violence: Issues in Representation and Experience

David P. Farrington

Unmarked

Unmarked

Peggy Phelan