Breaking the Bronze Ceiling uncovers a glaring omission in our global memorial landscape―the conspicuous absence of women. Exploring this neglected narrative, the book emerges as the foremost guide to women's memorialization across diverse cultures and ages. As global memorials come under intense examination, with metropolises vying for a more inclusive recognition of female contributions, this book stands at the forefront of contemporary discussion.
The book’s thought-provoking essays artfully traverse the complex terrains of gender portrayal, urban tales, ancestral practices, and grassroots activism―all anchored in the bedrock of cultural remembrance. Rich in the range of cases discussed, the book sifts through multifaceted representations of women, from Marians to Liberties, to handmaidens, to particular historical women.
Breaking the Bronze Ceiling offers a panoramic view of worldwide memorials, critically analyzing grandiose tributes while also honoring subtle gestures―be it evocative plaques, inspiring namesakes, or dynamic demonstrations. The book will be of interest to historians of art and architecture, as well as to activists, governmental bodies, urban planners, and NGOs committed to regional history and memory.
More than a mere compilation, Breaking the Bronze Ceiling epitomizes a movement. The book comprehensively assesses the portrayal of women in public art and offers a fervent plea to address the severe underrepresentation of women in memorials.
Contributors: Carolina Aguilera, Manuela Badilla, Daniel E. Coslett, Erika Doss, Tania Guti�rrez-Monroy, Daniel Herwitz, Katherine Hite, Lauren Kroiz, Ana Mar�a Le�n, Fernando Luis Mart�nez Nespral, P�a Montealegre, Sierra Rooney, Daniela Sandler, Kirk Savage, Susan Slyomovics, Marita Sturken, Amanda Su, Dell Upton, Nathaniel Robert Walker, and Mechtild Widrich

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Valentina Rozas-Krause is Assistant Professor in Design and Architecture at Universidad Adolfo Ib��ez 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 Antropolog�a Social, and Bifurcaciones alongside chapters in Golpes a la Memoria (Tege, 2019) and Neocolonialism and Built Heritage (Routledge, 2020).

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).

Carolina Aguilera teaches at the School of Sociology, Univer�sidad Diego Portales in Chile, and is Associate Researcher of the Cen�tre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies COES-Chile. Her main areas of research are focused on the sociology of memory and urban sociology. She has published in Memory Studies, Kamchatka, L�mite, AUS, and Bifurcaciones and has written chapters in collective volumes including Patrimonio: Contranarrativas Urbanas (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, 2019), Disputar la Ciudad (Bifurcaciones, 2018), and Golpes a la Memoria (Tege, 2019).

Manuela Badilla Rajevic received her PhD (2019) and MA (2013) in sociology from the New School for Social Research. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Sociology Department at the University of Valpara�so. She is also an adjunct researcher at the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies COES-Chile. She has published her work in Sociological Forum (2019), Mobilizations (2019), Space and Culture (2020), and Memory Studies (2020, 2021).

Daniel E. Coslett is Assistant Professor of Architectural His�tory at Drexel University. He is a scholar of colonial and postcolonial built environments whose work addresses intersections of architec�ture, heritage, archaeology, and tourism. He has published an edited volume, Neocolonialism and Built Heritage: Echoes of Empire in Africa, Asia, and Europe (Routledge, 2020), and two coedited volumes, Rethinking Global Modernism: Architectural Historiography and the Postcolonial (Rout�ledge, with Vikramaditya Prakash and Maristella Casciato, 2022) and Islamic Architecture Today and Tomorrow: (Re)defining the Field (Intellect, with Mohammad Gharipour, 2022).

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