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Laura Montes

CEDAW-Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women - 3 views

This was an effort of the UN in 1979. It was intended to start a kind of International Bill of Rights for Women. This initiative defines and describes what is and isn't discrimination against women...

http:__www.un.org_womenwatch_daw_cedaw_

started by Laura Montes on 28 Mar 10 no follow-up yet
Courtney Connors

"Cuentos de Hadas" (Fairy Tales) Art Exhibition - 2 views

www.avenue50studio.com/...dreamsandvisions.shtml

Art; Femicide; Discrimination Against Women ; Gender Roles Symbolism

shared by Courtney Connors on 24 Mar 10 - Cached
  • “Cuentos de Hadas” (Fairy Tales)
  • female vs. male versions of fairy tales
  • Gertz’s fairy tale series asks us to consider where women are in the 21st century. Her heroines are unapologetic symbols of female confidence. We sense in them a comfort with the body, with play and decoration. They confidently own the sensual, and relish in being a woman in charge.
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  • the docile, young body gets the prince, that the girl brave enough to venture into the woods—the space of men--meets her fate at the hands of the big bad wolf. Peter Pan lives forever as a boy, Wendy must grow up--it is her calling, her duty, her essential nature
  • A Prayer For Juarez, A Curse On The Killers
  • As part of A Prayer for Juarez, a network of companion exhibits will take place in March
  • Juarez City No More Femicide At the International Women's Day Rally at the Sydney Town Hall
  • Femicide
  • Courtney Connors on 24 Mar 10
     
    This website lays out a description of and a schedule for the "Cuentos de Hadas (Fairy Tales) Art Exhibtion at Avenue 50 Studio, Inc. in California. It is the intent of the artists' collections to display the discrepancy between the assumed and enforced male and female gender roles within fairy tales. The physical appearance, control of emotions, and psychological mind-set of the leading heroin and hero roles are pre-destined and the same stereotypes in most fairy tales. This exhibition asks the viewer to acknowledge this fact and address the underlying issues and implications within it. Furthermore, the weekend of the Art display is a march where participants will march in the name of a prayer for Juarez, Mexico where Femicide is both an immediate and devastating reality.
  • emilie neuss on 30 Mar 10
     
    I LOVE this idea! Since I seem to be in connection mode... this really made me consider the fairy tales and new renditions of fairy tales and short stories I read over the past month for my English class, "Romancing the Novel." Typical tales do seem to subjugate women, and set them up for interactions of violence towards and against them, while the Angela Carter renditions of past fairy tales set up new heroines much like this artwork is attempting to do. Also, I think it is great that the institution and artist are relating these works to the Femicide in Juarez. Rather than make art for arts sake, they are trying to force more impact and meaning within the work, and this really appeals to me. It is scary to think that most young girls are read or watch the more traditional versions of fairy tales... perhaps this sets us/them up for ignorance of violence against women???
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