Gender representation in visual culture is historically and socially situated, it is also affected by the positions through which we see the world, the perspective and identity of the people who create visuals. John Berger notes that throughout the long history of Western art, images perpetuate a gender relation where “[m]en act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.”1 This dynamic remains persistent globally even today, after decades of poststructuralist and feminist critique. The images and ideas in this collection grapple with these unequal relations, but also witness the changing depiction of the “modern woman” as an idealised figure in commercial advertising and popular images.