The impact of art on the feminism movement
Within my creative work practise I am always thinking about in which box citziety has restricted us all into, the biggest divide in the human race is obviously into sex within this essay I want to explore the mind of the modern women and what she thinks she aspirers to be and to examining her moral believes how she has acquired them and how feminist art is fighting to eradicate these prehistoric values and inspire a new breed of women who isn’t bound to any of these socially empowered restrictions.
’Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.’(J.Butler)
Unfortunately in todays modern world many young women feel such a compelling desire to enhance their beauty …show more content…
this is another reason that fashion is such an important contemporary feminist issue – and it’s all tied up with consumerism. “We’ve been told all along that buying clothes is empowering” she says. “It’s not, it’s about spending money. It’s completely different to empowerment. And we’ve been told that by buying clothes, we’re empowering other women, but we’re not. We’re exploiting them.”
In the post-World War II excitement of mass production and being able to buy things again, we simply stopped caring who we gave our money to. We stopped being citizens and started seeing ourselves as consumers. And when it comes to compulsive shopping, this has affected women in particular. There’s a reason the bored, shopping addict housewife is such a cliché.“It comes from a void,“If you think about it, women have been culturally subjugated for such a long time, so it tends to be the female who is more impulsive. We tend to do the over-eating of the chocolate. We have a cultural void to fill. Because ultimately we’ve been subjugated and relatively ignored and we want a way to be noticed. And we tend to do it in excess. read something recently about how young girls on Instagram are ashamed to be seen in the same clothes twice. And you think, how sad is that?” She continues, “as if what you wear defines you. It’s the other way around! It’s so sad – we are wearing fashion because it’s on trend, not because it says anything about who we
Within my creative work practise I am always thinking about in which box citziety has restricted us all into, the biggest divide in the human race is obviously into sex within this essay I want to explore the mind of the modern women and what she thinks she aspirers to be and to examining her moral believes how she has acquired them and how feminist art is fighting to eradicate these prehistoric values and inspire a new breed of women who isn’t bound to any of these socially empowered restrictions.
’Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.’(J.Butler)
Unfortunately in todays modern world many young women feel such a compelling desire to enhance their beauty …show more content…
this is another reason that fashion is such an important contemporary feminist issue – and it’s all tied up with consumerism. “We’ve been told all along that buying clothes is empowering” she says. “It’s not, it’s about spending money. It’s completely different to empowerment. And we’ve been told that by buying clothes, we’re empowering other women, but we’re not. We’re exploiting them.”
In the post-World War II excitement of mass production and being able to buy things again, we simply stopped caring who we gave our money to. We stopped being citizens and started seeing ourselves as consumers. And when it comes to compulsive shopping, this has affected women in particular. There’s a reason the bored, shopping addict housewife is such a cliché.“It comes from a void,“If you think about it, women have been culturally subjugated for such a long time, so it tends to be the female who is more impulsive. We tend to do the over-eating of the chocolate. We have a cultural void to fill. Because ultimately we’ve been subjugated and relatively ignored and we want a way to be noticed. And we tend to do it in excess. read something recently about how young girls on Instagram are ashamed to be seen in the same clothes twice. And you think, how sad is that?” She continues, “as if what you wear defines you. It’s the other way around! It’s so sad – we are wearing fashion because it’s on trend, not because it says anything about who we