Anita Selzer

One boy's extraordinary experience of wartime survival. One mother's incredible courage. Based on an astounding true story. It is German-occupied Poland in 1942, and Jewish lives are at risk. Nazi soldiers order young boys to pull down their trousers to see if they are circumcised. Many are summarily shot or sent to the camps. A remarkable mother takes an ingenious...

In this third volume of The Female Gaze in Art and Photography, author and academic Anita Selzer turns her attention to Australian women artists working between 1850 and 1950, foregrounding the lives and artistic contributions of Emma Minnie Boyd, Jane Sutherland and Josephine Muntz-Adams. Building on the themes established in the earlier volumes, Selzer continues her exploration of the “female...

Historically, male artists have re-presented women through their eyes. The Female Gaze in Art and Photography redresses this imbalance, looking at art through women’s eyes. It shines a light on the work of twenty contemporary women artists and photographers from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States of America, placing these creatives and their works centre...

Praise for volume one: ‘Through the work of the artists captured in these pages, selected and discussed by Anita Selzer, we can see and imagine a world in which the female gaze is honoured and nurtured, a world that embraces difference and diversity and in which equity is a given. The Female Gaze in Art and Photography reminds us of...