Performer, activist, and writer Jill Johnston was a major queer presence in the history of dance and 1970s feminism. She was the first critic to identify postmodernism\u2019s arrival in American dance and was a fierce advocate for the importance of lesbians within feminism. In Jill Johnston in Motion, Clare Croft tracks Johnston\u2019s entwined innovations and contributions to dance and art criticism and activism. She examines Johnston\u2019s journalism and criticism\u2014in particular her Village Voice columns published between 1960 and 1980\u2014and her books of memoir and biography. At the same time, Croft attends to Johnston\u2019s appearances as both dancer and audience member and her physical and often spectacular participation at feminist protests. By bringing together Johnston\u2019s criticism and activism, her writing and her physicality, Croft emphasizes the effect that the arts, particularly dance, had on Johnston\u2019s feminist thinking in the 1970s and traces lesbian feminism\u2019s roots in avant-garde art practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
AUTHOR:<\/strong> Clare Croft SOFTCOVER:<\/strong> 264 pages
\nPUBLISHER:<\/strong> Duke University Press (2024)<\/p>\n
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