Breaking the Bronze Ceiling

Valentina Rozas-Krause (Edited By)Valentina Rozas-Krause is Assistant Professor in Design and Architecture at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile and Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow (2023-24). She is the author of Ni Tan Elefante, Ni Tan Blanco (Ril, 2014) and the coedited volume Disputar la Ciudad (Bifurcaciones, 2018). These books join peer-reviewed articles in History & Memory, e-flux, Latin American Perspectives, Memory Studies, Anos 90, ARQ, Revista 180, Cuadernos de Antropología Social, and Bifurcaciones alongside chapters in Golpes a la Memoria (Tege, 2019) and Neocolonialism and Built Heritage (Routledge, 2020).Andrew M. Shanken (Edited By)Andrew Shanken is Professor of Architectural History and the Director of American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of 194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Homefront (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) and The Everyday Life of Memorials (Zone Books, 2022).

"This powerful book asks why women have been so underrepresented in public memorials and how distortion and debasement have played a part in how women have been remembered. Breaking the Bronze Ceiling makes a strong case for how cultural memory--and its mismanagement--have been controlling factors in the treatment of women in public art. The range of approaches makes the chapters lively and thought-provoking."--Susan G. Solomon

List of Figures | ixIntroductionValentina Rozas-Krause and Andrew M. Shanken | 1Part I: Patronized Women1. Innocence and Guilt: Memorializing a Gender Tragedy in Nineteenth-Century Santiago de ChilePía Montealegre | 192. George Eliot at Nuneaton and Trans MonumentalityAmanda Su | 41Toppling PocahontasKirk Savage | 69Monument to the Chilean Women Victims of Political RepressionCarolina Aguilera and Manuela Badilla Rajevic | 73Part II: Public Women3. White Marble and White Women: Adelaide Johnson's Portrait MonumentLauren Kroiz | 794. "We Shall Beg No More": Helen Keller, Politics, and Commemorations in the National Statuary HallSierra Rooney | 101Monument to Sojourner TruthKatherine Hite | 118Fearless Girl, New York CityMarita Sturken | 122Monument to the Empress Maria-Theresia, Vienna, AustriaMechtild Widrich | 126Part III: Women Warriors5. The Myth of the Passive Woman in Confederate MonumentsNathaniel Robert Walker | 1336. Firearms, Flowers, and Barricades: Women's Reinscriptions in the Mexican Landscape of MonumentsTania Gutiérrez-Monroy | 158Memorial to the South Carolina Women of the Confederacy(Frederick Wellington Ruckstuhl, 1909-1912), Columbia, South CarolinaDell Upton | 180Memorial to the Black Mothers of the Periphery Fighting against State Terrorism, Rio de JaneiroDaniela Sandler | 189Mujeres Creando, Plaza Chola Globalizada, La Paz, BoliviaAna María León | 193Part IV: Allegorical Women7. The Colonial Marianne: Representing Liberté and France in Occupied North AfricaDaniel E. Coslett | 2018. Female Winged Victory Statues in French AlgeriaSusan Slyomovics | 230The Argentine MarianneFernando Luis Martínez Nespral | 253I Am Queen Mary, CopenhagenErika Doss | 257Patience on a Monument: A History PaintingDaniel Herwitz | 261List of Contributors | 265Index | 271