– Avant-garde movements and gender.
– The presence of women in Dadaism and Futurism.
– The presence of women in Surrealism: Women as muses and women as lovers. The mythical characters of the femme fatale, the femme-enfant and the femme-fleur.
– The exclusion of women artists and the restricted point of view of male surrealists.
– Feminine writing / Feminine iconography and the use of body as an alternative/radical means of expression.
– The connection between gender and the production and/or interpretation of artistic works.
– New forms of artistic/literary expression used by women.
– The significance of auto-representation and self-portraiture in artistic and literary production by women.
– The different artistic and literary genres practiced by women: autobiographical theatre, story of dreams (récits de rêves), short stories, tales, poetry, collage and self-portraits, ballet costumes, theatre, film, and ballet design and sets.
