Perversions at her adolescent fingertips, or, Francesca Woodman’s autoerotic attentions: An essay-caress

This chapter article focuses on Francesca Woodman’s late 1970s fashion photography "attempts". Drawing on the adolescent-attentive work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and the tactile philosophy of Luce Irigaray, it contributes a queer-feminist theorisation and historicisation of the visual/verbal "essay-as-caress", reconfiguring through this lens Woodman's black-and-white photographs of young girl-women and textiles as instances of autoeroticism and feminist perversion.

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Archive of research processes and output produced by RCA (Royal College of Art)
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2024-09-30
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Fashion and Cultural Textiles
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Perversions at her adolescent fingertips, or, Francesca Woodman’s autoerotic attentions: An essay-caress

Archive of research processes and output produced by RCA (Royal College of Art)
Fashion and Cultural Textiles
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Perversions at her adolescent fingertips, or, Francesca Woodman’s autoerotic attentions: An essay-caress

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This chapter article focuses on Francesca Woodman’s late 1970s fashion photography "attempts". Drawing on the adolescent-attentive work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and the tactile philosophy of Luce Irigaray, it contributes a queer-feminist theorisation and historicisation of the visual/verbal "essay-as-caress", reconfiguring through this lens Woodman's black-and-white photographs of young girl-women and textiles as instances of autoeroticism and feminist perversion.

Archive of research processes and output produced by RCA (Royal College of Art)
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Fashion and Cultural Textiles
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