Women's Studies 2158A/B Lecture Notes - Harriet Hosmer, Women Artists, Public Sphere

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2158A/B
• Professor: Sonia Halpern

Document Summary

Lecture 005 notable & unexceptional women and the public sphere. Part i - notable & (heroic political actors) Men artists: allegories, sidelines, women artists. Unexceptional women: men artists, the escorter, women artists, the male gaze , the male gaze as a joke. Public sphere any area outside the home; throughout the history the public sphere was always deemed the domain of men, and that women were guests in the public sphere. Looking at images of women in the public sphere; when male artists show women in the public sphere, they are presented in two ways: as allegories, or as on the sidelines. Method of choice for male artists when it comes to heroic women doing something in the public sphere. Battlefield, very visible woman in image; is actually an allegory. Breasts are most illuminated part; drawing attention to her anatomy, adding sexual appeal.