Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-190) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: What's (still) wrong with images of women? -- Coming-of-age with mass media -- (re)visualizing history in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye -- Transforming culture and consciousness in Bobbie Ann Mason's In country -- Witnessing visual manipulation -- There were signs and I missed them: reading beneath the image in Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction -- The politics of vanishing: bearing witness to the wounded family in Louise Erdrich's Shadow tag -- Spectatorship in an expanded field of vision -- Against visual objectivity in Gish Jen's Birthmates and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The ultrasound -- Queering spectatorship in Alison Bechdel's Fun home -- Conclusion: Confronting visuality in the digital age.
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