Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts is highly accessible. Using interdisciplinary methods, the authors synthesize key theorists... and theoretical concepts in ways a student-reader will find familiar and useful in informing their own related practices, including research, writing, and art-making

Maria Costantino, Woman's Art Journal

This is an impressive collection of essays that addresses, through a feminist lens, important and timely issues. Examining various genres of art from across the globe, and representing diverse topics, Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts is an important contribution to the existing literature on feminist art practice.

Maria Photiou, Art Historian and Research Fellow, University of Derby, UK

One of the urgent issues of our day remains the European invention of the nation state. Combined with issues of climate and poverty, crossing national borders and belonging as a citizen are matters of life itself. This book responds to this conjuncture of crises and its need for an actively intersectional understanding of consequent manifestations of art and gender. Grounded in extensive feminist thinking, focused on particular exemplars of artists and artworks, and structured around "three modes of belonging: spatial, affective, and collective", it promises to be an essential contribution to the discussion as it unfolds in the contemporary art world.

Hilary Robinson, Professor of Feminism, Art, and Theory, Loughborough University, UK

Connecting global artists to multiple conversations about economics, gender and politics, this volume will be an invaluable guide for readers interested in the responses by contemporary feminist artists to myriad capitalist, patriarchial and imperial structures – a must read on this topic.

Anne Swartz, Professor of Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design, USA

Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts encapsulates the breadth and the beauty, as well as the critical challenge, of art that makes worlds in the margins, along the edges and through the charged spaces of the in-between. Never reducing the wonderfully diverse particularities of the transnational case studies brought together in the volume, Dormor and Sliwinska manage the complex task of creating a dialogue between them with care-filled attention and a clarity of purpose. This is a book that speaks to a difficult present, without losing hope for the possibility of belonging, together, in a more generous and equitable future.

Marsha Meskimmon, Professor of Transnational Art and Feminism, and Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Loughborough University, UK