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Look like a Lady Five Visual Tropes of Womanhood and How to See Ourselves Differently Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt
Images tell powerful stories about how women should look and act. In Look like a Lady , art historian Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt uses personal narrative and art history to uncover five limiting visual stories that have shaped us: Venus, the beautiful body desired by men; Vessel, an allegorical figure or a container for meaning; Maiden, young, vulnerable, and acted upon by out - side forces; Mother, a romanticized, impossible maternal ideal; and Monster, the wild creature in need of taming. Weichbrodt challenges these restrictive scripts that continue to exist in popular culture and faith communities and presents five empowering counterstories from art history. Featuring full-color illustrations and Weichbrodt’s own hand-drawn images, this book helps Christian women correct and expand their vision of womanhood for today.
Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt (PhD, Washington University in St. Louis) is professor of art and art history at Covenant College.
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AUGUST 2026 • 256 pp. • $22.99p • 9781587436925
Beauty and Justice Creating a Life of Abundance and Courage Haejin Shim Fujimura and Makoto Fujimura
Justice advocate Haejin Shim Fujimura and internationally renowned artist Makoto Fujimura explore the unique interplay between beauty and justice: Justice looks beautiful to a watching world, and pursuing beauty helps put things to right. The book includes a four-color artwork insert. “What makes Beauty and Justice stand out is the authors’ inspiring vision of the intertwining of beauty and justice in shalom and their highly original employment throughout of the Japanese concept of Kintsugi: mending a fractured vessel with gold, making it more beautiful than it was before. What a gift!” —Nicholas Wolterstorff, Yale University (emeritus); Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Haejin Shim Fujimura is a lawyer, entrepreneur, and justice advocate. She is the principal attorney of Shim & Associates, the CEO of Embers International, and the creator of Estuary. Makoto Fujimura is an artist, a writer, and an arts advocate. He is a former presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts and the founder of IAMCultureCare (formerly known as International Arts Movement).
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APRIL 2026 • 160 pp. • $24.99c • 9781587436468
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