Woman as Artist
Papers in Honour of Marsha Hanen

Christine M. Sutherland
and Beverly J. Rasporich, editors

ISBN 1895176379
$24.95 paper
December 1993

vii + 238 pages
4 colour photos
13 b/w photos

 

About the Book


Some of the questions addressed in the essays in this collection are: What distinguishes women in the arts? In particular, how do women artists think and feel about what they do? What are some of the difficulties that they must overcome? To what extent does their experience as women inform their art? How do they learn - and teach?

Many of the women discussed in this collection are practitioners of the arts. The essays are about women painters, writers, dancers, musicians, teachers, and scholars and are written by women scholars and teachers of painting, music, dance, drama, and literature. Contributors include Alice Mansell, Marcia Epstein, Marilyn Engle, Anne Flynn, and Aritha van Herk.

Marsha Hanen, the inspiration for this collection, was dean of the faculty of General Studies at the University of Calgary from 1986 to 1989 and is now president of the University of Winnipeg.

About the Editors

Christine Sutherland is Associate Professor and Beverly Rasporich is Professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary.

 

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction (Christine Mason Sutherland)
  2. Marsha P. Hanen: A Portrait (Margaret J. Osler)
  3. Models, Muses, and Mothers of the Mind: Mentrix Figures in the Early Lives of Artist-Heroines (Diana M.A. Relke)
  4. Images of Winnipeg's North End: Fictionalizing Space for the Ethnic and Female "Other" (Tamara Palmer Seiler)
  5. The Unfeminist Figure of Melancholy: Gail Scott's "Heroine" (Kathleen Martindale)
  6. Aphra Behn and Contemporary Canadian Women Playwrights (Susan Stone-Blackburn)
  7. Postmodernism, Knowledge, and Gender (Pamela McCallum)
  8. Locating the Artist's Muse: The Paradox of Femininity in Mary Pratt and Alice Munro (Beverly Matson Rasporich)
  9. Contemporary Art and Critical Theory in Canada (Alice Mansell)
  10. Women in Music: Is There a Difference? Variations on the Theme of Gender in Music (Marcia J. Epstein)
  11. Mrs. E.: A Personal Memoir (Marilyn Engle)
  12. Prairie Pioneers: Canadian Women in Dance (Anne Flynn)
  13. Edging Off the Cliff (Aritha van Herk)
  14. Afterword (Eliane Leslau Silverman)
  15. Postscript (Christine Mason Sutherland)

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