The Discourses of Hysteria: Menopause, Art and the Body.

From: Hecate | Date: October 1, 1999| Author: McLaren, Rosie | Copyright information

The artistic practices of women require deciphering, like monuments from lost or unfamiliar cultures. There is some system to the patterning of signs into meanings. We need, however, to find the codes that lend the symbols generated there resonance and meanings, both within the context of their production and across time and space to other contexts. These codes, as I name them, are not merely semiotic signs, but those shaped in concrete and historical conditions, which in turn shape...

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