Critical Writing Index

Subjects on the Threshold: Problems with the Pronouns

by Renee Baert

Parachute, Winter 1993, no. 69, pp. 14-21

This article focuses on gender ideology by exploring such tropes as seduction courtship, the energies of quest, and searching for female position. Through various examples of Canadian video art the author looks at feminism, depictions of the body and culture and identity to explain these trots.

ITEM 1993.057 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Birthday Suit - With Scars and Defects – Lisa Steele

Helene Bourgault

Chaperons Rouges – Helene Doyle

Lisa Steele

Working the Double Shift – Kim Tomczak

Leila Sujir

India Hearts Beat – Elizabeth Schroeder

I Can't Get Over What I Saw – Su Rynard

Absence – Sara Diamond

Heroics – Janice Marchessault

The Act of Seeing with Another Eye – Catherine Richard

Spectral Bodies