Identity & Performativity

Factory Girls and Superstars: Warhol's Women in the 1960s

Gilda Williams, Factory Girls and Superstars: Warhol's Women in the 1960s  Gilda Williams discusses the construction of women's identity in Warhol's Factory, which, despite being often described as a 'boy's club’, counted numerous fascinating, often beautiful women among its regulars, including Jane Holzer, Edie Sedgwick, Brigid Berlin, Ultra Violet, Dorothy Dean, Mary Woronov, Viva and innumerable others. Gilda Williams' research looks at how many of the women in this pre-feminist generation forged an unconventional female identity via the sexually experimental context of the Factory and in their performances for Warhol's camera.Further ReadingGilda Williams, Factory Girls and Superstars: Warhol's Women in the 1960sCallie Angell, Andy Warhol Screen Tests: The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne, volume 1, New York: Abrams, in association with Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2006Jennifer Doyle, '"I Must Be Boring Someone": Women in Warhol's Films', in Sex Objects, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006, pp. 71-96Kenneth Goldsmith, ed., I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews 1962-1987, New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2004Ultra Violet, Famous for 15 Minutes: My Years with Andy Warhol, San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988Mary Woronov, Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory, London: Serpent's Tail, 1995