In/Visibility in/of Feminist Theory

Authors

  • Ilya Parkins University of British Columbia
  • Eva Karpinski

Keywords:

feminist theory, feminist activism, visibility, voice

Abstract

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Ilya Parkins is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus. She is the author of Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli: Fashion, Femininity and Modernity (2012) and the co-editor of Cultures of Femininity in Modern Fashion (2011). Her research has appeared in such journals as Feminist Review, Australian Feminist Studies, Time and Society, and Biography.

Eva C. Karpinski is Associate Professor at the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University in Toronto. She is the author of Borrowed Tongues: Life Writing, Migration, and Translation (2012) and co-editor of Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory: Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard (2013).

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Author Biography

Ilya Parkins, University of British Columbia

Associate Professor and Program Coordinator, Gender and Women's Studies, UBC's Okanagan Campus.

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Published

2015-04-10

Issue

Vol. 36 No. 2 (2014): In/Visibility: Absences/Presence in Feminist Theorizing

Section

36.2- In/Visibility: Absences/Presence in Feminist Theorizing

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