Feminist substances

'Feminist substances is a thrilling, but also disturbing (!), study of the use of plastics in early feminist art. Charlotte Matter shows us how plastics changed the affective terrain of the art world and yielded a new lexicon for the expression of embodied experience and material conditions. The case studies take the reader from the U.S. to Argentina, Italy and Poland showing how the globalization of feminist art collided with this postwar substance, for better and for worse. For this generation of artists, critics and curators, the stakes of materialist criticism are high and could even have fatal consequences. We should all pay attention to this aesthetic history.' Amanda Boetzkes, Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste -- .