This issue of the Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture (JAPPC) is the result of a collaboration with an Italian research group working on a research project entitled “Italian Feminist Photography” (IFP),1 funded by the Italian Ministry for University and Research after winning a national funding call. The IFP project aims at reconstructing the contribution of feminism to Italian photographic production from the origins of the medium to 1980, analyzing the contribution of women to the history of Italian photography within the framework of a progressive spread of demands for feminist emancipation and recognition of identity, according to the most recent perspectives offered by gender and feminist studies. Our investigation and reflection extend to practices which, while outside any militant positions, helped to underline a specific policy of construction of the female imagination and different self-assertion strategies.

Aiming to study and enhance the presence and role of women...

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