Feminism: Women and Womxn in British Art

Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo's Feminism is a powerful new interpretation of British art from an intersectional feminist perspective.

"Art museums have long drawn me into their spaces. The infinite possibilities of the language of art opens me up to methods of communication quite unlike my own. I am fascinated by the most interesting and adventurous artists, who are surely among the most innovative thinkers on the planet. I am in awe of their talent and endless inventiveness, and my imagination is nourished by theirs. I am challenged to think differently about how we might understand, recreate, reshape, reimagine life itself--animate, inanimate, spirit. My senses are stimulated, my emotions stirred, my brain whirs away in the background and I feel very much alive.

"When I was invited to write this book, my first time writing about art, I immediately knew that I would turn my attention on women and womxn (to include nonbinary people) of color in British art because, similar to the story throughout the arts, either as creator or curator, we haven't been very visible. This book is personal--about the art I've seen, and the art I've loved--and my interpretation of the art in the national collection and beyond, from an intersectional feminist perspective."

Includes Color Illustrations


About the Author
Bernardine Evaristo, MBE, is the award-winning author of many books of narrative fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other made her the first Black woman to win the Booker Prize in 2019, as well as won the Fiction Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards in 2020, where she also won Author of the Year and the Indie Book Award. She became the first woman of color and Black British writer to reach number one in the UK paperback fiction chart in 2020. Her writing spans reviews, essays, drama, and radio, and she has edited and guest-edited national publications, including the Sunday Times Style magazine. Her other awards and honors include an MBE in 2009. Evaristo is a professor of creative writing at Brunel University, London, and vice chair of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London with her husband.