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The angel is also the enemy of female creativity, as her capacity to think, want or need is secondary to how she can make others feel. Maintaining the ideal meant censoring the flow of the imagination and denying the woman artist or writer
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“Seeing these images in their heavy gilded frames, tenderly lit and guarded by tasselled ropes and attentive guards, somehow made male desire and violence both precious and part of the unquestionable natural order of things.”
― Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
― Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
“Women are socialised from an early age to comply with hyper-sexual stereotypes found in both fast-moving media and ‘high art’ and cultural representations, which consequently become the default norm. And seeing women as sexually available in images found everywhere from the art gallery to the workplace to the top deck of the bus on the way to school, creates a totalising environment of erotic privilege for straight men.”
― Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
― Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
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