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...