Body-Guard Design

This essay focuses on one of the numerous aspects in design that illustrates the necessity of including gender. It discusses gender identities between subjection and agency within the broad realm of matters, textiles, and fashion. The article exemplarily wanders through various forms of social oppre...

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Main Author:	Uta Brandes
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Jap Sam Books 2019-07-01
Series:	Cubic Journal
Subjects:	body material subjection gender fluidity
Online Access:	https://www.cubicjournal.org/index.php/cubic/article/view/20

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description	This essay focuses on one of the numerous aspects in design that illustrates the necessity of including gender. It discusses gender identities between subjection and agency within the broad realm of matters, textiles, and fashion. The article exemplarily wanders through various forms of social oppression and exploitation of women in history as well as today, but also offers perspectives of resilience and resistance. Although totally different from each other, they have one phenomenon in common: it is both the body and the material that matters. In the end, the possibility of transforming the social making of objectified and subjectified bodies into fluid identities is discussed.
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Body-Guard Design

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