Finding their voice: Identifying signifiers of women's agency and empowerment in the work of Haitian women artists

Author

• Anita Mary Kirchen

Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1999

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Beoku-Betts, Josephine

Abstract

Although the work of women artists has been widely discussed within feminist scholarship from a Euro-American perspective, there is currently little published discourse on the visual art produced by Third-World women within the context of postcolonial and Black feminist theories. This study explores the hypothesis that using the lens of postcolonial and Black feminist theories to examine the work of women artists situated in a Third World environment may identify signifiers of women's agency and empowerment.

Extent

134 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1999.|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Recommended Citation

Kirchen, Anita Mary, "Finding their voice: Identifying signifiers of women's agency and empowerment in the work of Haitian women artists" (1999). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999. 1453.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_4/1453

Identifier

FADT15733

Format

pdf