Femme au miroir II (Mujer ante el espejo) Gender and the body Gender stereotypes: Genius / muse Gender stereotypes: Subject / object The cast iron and solder outlines of Femme au miroir II (Woman in the Mirror) show the nude body of a woman in a moment of intimacy,...
Poster by Valentina Kulagina Gender roles Gender and social class Gender and history This poster by Valentina Kulagina shows the fundamental role that women played in the Soviet avant-garde and in the fusion of art with everyday life that was a feature of this...
Maternité Gender roles Gender and history Maternity / Paternity La Maternité represented by Julio González in this sketch for his famous piece, Montserrat (1936-67), represents the prototype of the Catalonian peasant woman, a page girl who radiates expressiveness and...
Composition Aubette Gender roles Gender and space From a feminist perspective, the trajectory of Sophie Taeuber-Arp interests us for several reasons. She is a paradigm of modernity in the plastic arts, and particularly of the role that women played in this modernity,...
La tarara Gender roles Gender and history La Tarara shows a group of men and women in a circle singing a Valencian folk song at Easter. This was one of the few moments of leisure that both men and women could share outside of the separated social spheres of...
