Sentences with phrase «expose cultural expectations»

The talk involved several exchanges along these lines: Ellison asking semi-facetious questions presumably meant to expose cultural expectations directed at women, and the panelists — earnest, hyper - articulate types — answering without irony.

In 1973, she washed the steps and floors of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, exposing the cultural expectation that women will tidy the messes in support of the largely white male arc of art history.