Sentences with phrase «exploring gender roles»

Great Critics and Their Ideas: The god Dionysus on art in the 1970s exploring gender roles.
Featuring 160 works, the exhibition explores gender roles, race relations, and gun violence — offering a visual journey that is about more than cowboys, bandits, and barroom brawls.
explores gender roles within diverse cultural backgrounds and their relationship to the craft of sewing.

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The book explores the role of gender in the tech industry — at startups and venture capital firms — and the interaction between men and women in the two.
The expectant father may also be exploring stereotypical gender roles due to a pressure to conform to them upon the birth of his child.
The second annual State Of Dating In America report explores the ever - evolving public opinion on sex, infidelity, gender roles and other controversial issues.
Writer - director - star Lake Bell uses the world of voiceover to slyly explore how society has shaped our ears to accept stereotypical gender roles.
Like «Mad Men,» it uses its subject and setting to explore the lives of characters in that era and to reflect our own perceptions and preconceptions of sex, race, gender roles, and the complicated relations between men and women.
While she holds her own in fighting skills, the film misses some opportunities to explore ideas or even comedic scenes that deal with the shifting gender roles in the big action movies these old dogs invented.
««Fifty Shades of Grey» is at its most interesting when it pauses to explore a balance of power, wherein sex and gender roles relate to a broader survey of boundaries and choices... That said, the movie doesn't often have time for all this, and while some of its fleshier scenes — of which there are many — may urge you and your theater date to get a room, its ick factor is usually too prevalent to overlook.»
Resources include opportunities to: - explore context - gender, Elizabethan England, - analyse theme and character presentation - get to grips with Shakespeare's language - analyse imagery - explore Shakespearian insults - write non fiction texts - write persuasively - write news reports - role play
Long Black Veil will appeal to readers who enjoy complex plots and exploring contemporary issues of identity and the role of gender; as well as the idea of self - reinvention.
But yes, evolving into less strict roles is a good thing as we explore more what it means to be human, regardless of gender.
Though a rift separates the two women for a good number of years, their friendship remains at the heart of the novel as Quinn explores a bevy of subjects, including sexuality, shifting gender roles and questions of identity in postwar England.
The exhibition both explores how notions of femininity (and alternately, masculinity) have shifted in the context of newly defined gender identities and how family structures have been reimagined and reshaped through relatively recent advances in reproductive medicine and evolving gender roles.
Simmons has been producing set - up photography since the late 1970s, depicting mannequins, dolls, and dummies in dreamlike, often eerie staged worlds to explore domesticity, gender roles, objectification, and the increasingly questionable space between animate and inanimate.
Exploring identity, family relationships, gender roles, and race, class, and social justice issues, Weems's photography - based practice often employs text, audio, video, digital images, fabric, and installation.
Rodriguez Maleck employs nostalgia, disguise, and sarcasm in order to challenge norms and create alternate realities that explore accepted expectations based on gender, age, and familial roles.
The constant threat of redundancy, a move towards working from home, the role of gender inequality and the role of decision makers within the Union movement are all central themes that are explored in this body of work.
She uses video performance, live performance, textile and fiber art to explore concepts related to gender roles, migrations, and Hispanic and American cultures from a personal point of view.
Lin explores the gendered and racialized figure of the healer, herb - woman, or witch, and the role of botany in relationship to empire and colonialism.
Her works explore female identity, censorship, and gender roles.
Issues of identity, gender roles and aging are some of the topics these creatives explore.
The show, a bold move that is testament to the lasting legacy of soon to be ex-director Nicholas Serota come June, explores how artists have expressed their sexuality during times of social change and how gender roles and preference assumptions have been questioned and transformed by a collective of creative who were often at the forefront of pushing boundaries and questioning norms.
FAENA ART presents two distinct but related exhibitions, opening to the public on May 31, 2015 at Faena Art Center Buenos Aires (FAC), which demonstrate the power of performing bodies, in both physical and digital forms, to explore temporality and the role of gender in contemporary art and performance.
The exhibition features documentary material that underscores Benglis's interest in exploring and subverting gender roles as well as pioneering video works which tackle themes of gender politics and experiment with the formal and performative potential of what was then a new medium.
Martha Wilson's practice, for example, includes photo - text works and conceptual performance art in which gender - based roles and identities are explored, as she dresses in and assumes the identities of stereotypical feminine archetypes and also takes on male personas.
Exploring gender and power roles in an intimate familial setting, the photography series features Weems herself depicting an archetype coming into her own.
A group of works that deal with challenges to traditional social roles, especially those related to gender, will be on display at the Queens Museum of Art, and works that explore contemporary uses of traditional Asian media will be shown at New York University's Grey Art Gallery.
An installation dedicated to the performative videos of women artists, exploring the role of the body, complexity of the mind, and inequalities fostered by both gender and political prejudice — including Marina Abramović's AAA - AAA (1978), Joan Jonas's Vertical Role (1972), and Martha Rosler's Semiotics of the Kitchen (19role of the body, complexity of the mind, and inequalities fostered by both gender and political prejudice — including Marina Abramović's AAA - AAA (1978), Joan Jonas's Vertical Role (1972), and Martha Rosler's Semiotics of the Kitchen (19Role (1972), and Martha Rosler's Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975).
Quadrille (1976) by Rose English highlights the fetishisation of women's bodies and explores issues around gender roles, whereby dressage can be seen as a metaphor for power struggles and relationships.
Louise Bourgeois (1911 - 2010) was a French - American artist whose work explores themes of childhood, domesticity, family, gender roles and sexuality.
These works explore notions of power, gender relations, and role - playing.
Exploring issues ranging from societal gender roles and the perceived failure of idealism to the relationship between humans and technology, she produces genre - crossing works rooted in critical theory, art history and themes from science fiction.
The exhibition is centered on gender and feminist politics in the age of trans - identity, both explores how notions of femininity (and alternately, masculinity) have shifted in the context of newly defined gender identities and how family structures have been reimagined and reshaped through relatively recent advances in reproductive medicine and evolving gender roles.
The work explores themes of consumption, ephemerality and craft, as well as gender roles in the home.
The distinct materiality as well as the use of text are key features of the work, allowing us into personal facets of the artist's psyche that are laid open in an act of confession, commenting on histories of labour, of gender roles, of environments, and exploring the space of the subconscious.
The ever - smiling characters of EVA & ADELE are however only part of a much wider concept that has been created to explore a new gender role as an act of art.
«Hide / Seek» considers such themes as the role of sexual difference in depicting modern America; how artists explored the fluidity of sexuality and gender; how major themes in modern art — especially abstraction — were influenced by social marginalization; and how art reflected society's evolving and changing attitudes toward sexuality, desire, and romantic attachment.
In her early works, Sedira explored the traditional gender roles of Arab women, particularly as passed from mother to daughter.
Using installation, photography, sculpture and video, the foundation of her work remains rooted in exploring the gap of disconnection from traditional roles; whether they are gender or culturally based.
Her conceptual photographic «self portrait» scenes explore and question accepted female roles, cultural perceptions of race and gender, and, in the period covered here, a corruption of the male gaze.
Exploring gender and power roles in an intimate familial setting, Weems placed herself in the staged photographs depicting an archetype coming into her own.
Valdez's work at the same time involved performance, photography, and video, which explored Chicano / Chicana identity and politics, the role of women and gender, and the civil rights of Chicanos living and working in East Los Angeles and elsewhere.
The course will also explore key themes that intersect with questions of gender roles and representation, including the domestic sphere, fashion, politics, and craft.
PART II titled HAPPY HOUR is a multi-media exhibition that explores domestic culture and gender roles in relation to alcoholism through a series of paintings, works on paper and multi-media installations using the narrative style of Dick and Jane, and iconography borrowed from Girl Scout and debutante traditions.
We will explore the family as a system; themes and patterns of interaction across generations; family rules and roles; the significance of culture, gender, birth order and sexual orientation; how alliances are formed and sustained within the family; and the challenge of daring to be different.
For the semistructured telephone interviews, inductive and deductive content analyses were used to explore the role of gender in how parents support child activity.
From sex differences to gender role beliefs: Exploring effects on sex dimension of religiousity.
Description: Explores the role and practice of human service professionals and how they can effectively engage non-resident fathers by understanding issues of power, gender, race, and socioeconomic status of professionals and the fathers and families they serve.
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