Backman Rogers offers a humorous reflection on ‘The Expulsion from the Temple/Female Christ’, the 1969 happening at the Danish Stock Exchange.
Anna Backman Rogers
MAI co-founder and co-editor-in-chief, Anna Backman Rogers is a Professor in Aesthetics and Culture specialising in feminist theory at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is also the author of American Independent Cinema: Rites of Passage and The Crisis Image (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure (Berghahn, 2018), and Still Life: Notes on Barbara Loden’s Wanda (Punctum, 2021).
She is also the co-editor with Laura Mulvey of Feminisms (Amsterdam University Press, 2015) and the co-editor with Boel Ulfsdotter of Female Authorship and the Documentary Image: Theory, Practice and Aesthetics and Female Agency and Documentary Strategies: Subjectivities, Identity, and Activism (both with Edinburgh University Press, 2017).
Anna is currently working on the BFI Classics volume on Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (Bloomsbury, 2022), a monograph addressing the cinema of Lynne Ramsay through notions of ambiguity and ambivalence (Berghahn, 2024), and a co-edited volume with Laura Mulvey on feminist filmmakers, scholars and practitioners (Bloomsbury, 2024).
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey