This project has arrived to Hamilton thans to the invitation from Red tree collective and it is part of Enraged, inertia run off.
Monday, October 3, 2016
The hidden hand, 2016
Missing is the first of a number of projects dedicated to bring to public awareness about the role of women in different communities all over the world. The public intervention consists in posting all over a town(in this occasion Hamilton) posters of a woman, asking if anybody knows who she is. A web site with an explanation about each woman is provided. The project serve as a way to generate awareness about important women in their communities as well as to have a statistic about how much people in the community really know about their existence and achievements. The idea is to open up a dialogue about why women work has gone unrecognized or underestimated and if there has been changes in this situation in the last decades. In this piece to be realize in Hamilton Ontario on October 11th the female character will be Elizabeth Catherine Bagshaw.
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Feminism is such a complex topic.
ReplyDeleteI find it compelling to consider feminism as a capitalist construct. There are multiple other approaches; however, I find this examination is less often had.
Over the last 70 years, society has pressured women to become more like men.
Although women’s rights movements precede the world wars, it was not until the wars created a need for additional labor, that feminism gained mass popularity.
Much of feminism until now has served to devalue the roles traditionally played by women as oppose to elevate them.
Western women are pressured to work to bring in revenue for their household and this has resulted in the outsourcing of tasks to entities motivated by profit and not necessarily the greater good.