WMST 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Christine De Pizan, Bayeux Tapestry, Judy Chicago
10 Feb 2018
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About william the conqueror: last of english kings. Reveals many things: focus for men = military. Women = victims, griving wives, mothers, women are denied agency. Priapas figure = guy with erection (corner small frame: tells us story aout what will happen, violence will be sexual in nature. Created scivuas (the knowledge) codex, she did her own illustrations. Hildegarde: composer, chorus of nuns, used as means of communicating with the devine. She puts herself in the authors seat: reversal of norm, writing, red flag thing: flames leaping from her head = inspiration. Monk standing in doorway: when women found a voice, they visualized themselves as an inversion of the social norm. Looking at female analtomy: get across idea of cosmos and femin entity being crucial to each other, not to be regulated to sidelines. About heavenly position of creativity: she anticipates a lot of feminist art quite a bit later.
