Breaking the Bronze Ceiling (EPUB) von Valentina Rozas-Krause

List of Figures | ix

Introduction
Valentina Rozas-Krause and Andrew M. Shanken | 1

Part I: Patronized Women

1. Innocence and Guilt: Memorializing a Gender Tragedy in Nineteenth-Century Santiago de Chile
Pía Montealegre | 19

2. George Eliot at Nuneaton and Trans Monumentality
Amanda Su | 41

Toppling Pocahontas
Kirk Savage | 69

Monument to the Chilean Women Victims of Political Repression
Carolina Aguilera and Manuela Badilla Rajevic | 73

Part II: Public Women

3. White Marble and White Women: Adelaide Johnson’s Portrait Monument
Lauren Kroiz | 79

4. “We Shall Beg No More”: Helen Keller, Politics, and Commemorations in the National Statuary Hall
Sierra Rooney | 101

Monument to Sojourner Truth
Katherine Hite | 118

Fearless Girl, New York City
Marita Sturken | 122

Monument to the Empress Maria-Theresia, Vienna, Austria
Mechtild Widrich | 126

Part III: Women Warriors

5. The Myth of the Passive Woman in Confederate Monuments
Nathaniel Robert Walker | 133

6. Firearms, Flowers, and Barricades: Women’s Reinscriptions in the Mexican Landscape of Monuments
Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy | 158

Memorial to the South Carolina Women of the Confederacy
(Frederick Wellington Ruckstuhl, 1909–1912), Columbia, South Carolina
Dell Upton | 180

Memorial to the Black Mothers of the Periphery Fighting against State Terrorism, Rio de Janeiro
Daniela Sandler | 189

Mujeres Creando, Plaza Chola Globalizada, La Paz, Bolivia
Ana María León | 193

Part IV: Allegorical Women

7. The Colonial Marianne: Representing Liberté and France in Occupied North Africa
Daniel E. Coslett | 201

8. Female Winged Victory Statues in French Algeria
Susan Slyomovics | 230

The Argentine Marianne
Fernando Luis Martínez Nespral | 253

I Am Queen Mary, Copenhagen
Erika Doss | 257

Patience on a Monument: A History Painting
Daniel Herwitz | 261

List of Contributors | 265

Index | 271