Sentences with phrase «restrictions upon women»
As a performer and photographer, Wilson is best known for her role - playing self - portraits — as Jayne Wark explains in the Martha Wilson Sourcebook accompanying the exhibition, «Wilson's inquiry into identity formations aligns her early work with the broad impetus of 1970s feminist art to shake loose what were perceived as the imposed roles and restrictions upon women in patriarchy.»
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But, at the same time, women used their multifarious power within the context of various restrictions upon them.
The restrictions placed upon breastfeeding women by the airline simply made it too hard, and potentially dangerous, for them to keep working in the same way.
Al Dowayan's work reacts vividly to the restrictions imposed upon women in 21st century Saudi Arabia.
Known for constructing the feminine archetype through juxtaposing the ancient goddesses of Mesopotamia, Egypt and India with the more «modern» goddesses such as the Mona Lisa, Umm Kulthum, Tahiyya Karyokka, the artist's mother or aunts, Lutfi captures the women's emotions, their sexuality and experiences in order to simultaneously celebrate femininity and expose the cultural restrictions imposed upon it.