In Stories from a Generation, Dougherty describes her discovery of an archive of early video art done by women at the Los Angeles Woman’s Building. She discusses the importance of this place and its archive as a resource for the female art community in the area and how the communal atmosphere of the Woman’s Building influenced the collective nature of much early video art production, and how this idea of collectivity and communal practice continues to be relevant today.
Braderman’s Feminism and Video charts the development of early feminist video practice by constructing a history of the emergence of its principal ideals from within the growing women’s liberation movement and the expanding notions of gender and sexual politics during the 1960s, while also considering the changing academic mentalities and growing institutional networks that supported such alternative media practice. Through the course of the essay, Braderman also distinguishes betwe
