Feminist subjects, multi-media : cultural methodologies

Quotes 

 “Women are inheritors of masculine culture, whether we will or no, as surely as we are of imperialism, and the way forward is inflected by the pasts of world culture.” Introduction 

 “But common to us all is the need for self-representation within a world culture built on our denial and distortion, part of which is the tendency to homogenise, reducing differences between women to a chameleon femininity whose colours, while supposedly ‘eternal’, are responsive to the mutable needs of masculinity.” Introduction 

 “...and show how ‘dressing up’ is part of the production of female identity, rather than simply the adornment of the female child: ‘the clothes make the woman’.” Introduction

 “The barmaid is calculated to function as ‘detached’, in a way which allows the customer to think she is one more such object which money can buy, and in a sense it is part of her duties to maintain that illusion.” pg 7 ‘A view from elsewhere’ (In relation to ‘A bar at the Folies Bergère’- Manet)

 “She is an embodiment of Bourgeois men’s fantasies about female availability in which woman is like a blank page upon which is inscribed a masculine script through the social hieroglyphics of fashion.” pg 8 ‘A view from elsewhere’ (In relation to ‘A bar at the Folies Bergère’- Manet)