Review of: Johanna Schaffer: Ambivalenzen der Sichtbarkeit. Über die visuellen Strukturen der Anerkennung. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2008.
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https://doi.org/10.14766/835Keywords:
Repräsentation, Queer, Geschlecht, GenderAbstract
How can minority groups be made visible without, however, reproducing the manner in which their minority status is formed, which is what their visual representation, in turn, intends to critique? This is the central question that runs through Johanna Schaffer’s study. She treats modes of visibility in the field of visual culture with respect to epistemology, politics, and especially aesthetics. Schaffer develops objections to naïve conceptions that causally connect visuality with an increase of power by basing her objections on the interplay between image analysis and work with theory and terminology. Overall this is a book worth reading, for it is not only theoretically founded and offers interesting readings of images, but it also equips readers with a set of instruments for (image) analysis.
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