Breaking the Bronze Ceiling: Women, Memory, and Public Space - Hardcover

by Valentina Rozas-Krause (Editor), Andrew M. Shanken (Editor), Carolina Aguilera (Contribution by)

Breaking the Bronze Ceilingcomprehensively assesses the portrayal of women in public art and offers a fervent plea to address the severe underrepresentation of women in memorials.

Author Biography

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, Berke-ley. 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).