The 'mirror stage' in Lacanian psychoanalytical theory constructs the female body as lacking. However, what happens if you follow Baudrillard's advice to 'swallow the mirror'? Basia Sliwinska's Genderland, like Alice's Wonderland, is an invitation through the looking-glass. It explores the reflections and realities that we see in the cultural mirror, offering radical new insights into gender identity and the politics of vision in contemporary women's art. This book maps representations of the social and cultural 'other' associated with visual tropes of femininity, such as Alice in Wonderland, Venus or Lolita, in seminal practices of women artists