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Body-Guard Design

Author(s) -

Uta Brandes

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

cubic journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2589-7101

pISSN - 2589-7098

DOI - 10.31182/cubic.2019.2.017

Subject(s) - oppression , realm , guard (computer science) , phenomenon , sociology , agency (philosophy) , embodied cognition , resistance (ecology) , social phenomenon , aesthetics , gender studies , epistemology , political science , social science , law , art , computer science , philosophy , politics , ecology , biology , programming language

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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