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- Title
ART:.
- Authors
Harrell, Mikhayla
- Abstract
The article focuses on the development of fabric art that reflects on contemporary issues about the role of women as mothers, warriors, terrorists, and activists. It describes the role of women play from an authentic perspective of indigenous world cultures. It relates that covering or obscuring the face of women with cloth or hair has been an age-old custom to define status and sexuality in all cultures. In Latin America, the use of black ski mask over the face signifies solidarity with the Zapatista movement. However, in North America, wearing a ski mask typically suggests a dangerous criminal. Further, it implies that the cultural contradictory is parallel to the way women are viewed throughout world cultures.
- Subjects
WOMEN'S conduct of life; FEMININE identity; SYMBOLISM of masks; SOCIOCULTURAL factors; CULTURAL identity; CULTURE conflict; FEMINISM; TEXTILE arts; WORLD culture
- Publication
Femspec, 2008, Vol 9, Issue 1, p52
- ISSN
1523-4002
- Publication type
Article