RENATE BERTLMANN (A): from the series Top U29 (2005).
On her current exhibition in Vienna, see:
derstandard.at/2000073066949/Renate-Bertlmann-Luftige-Lustkoerper
Archive for gender
Domestic
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, exhibition, gender, Vienna on 30 January 2018 by delclem#remember? Die Traktoristin
Posted in Uncategorized with tags gender, propaganda, realSoz, Traktoristin on 19 December 2017 by delclemRot, stark, weiblich” müsste man in Abwandlung eines ÖVP-Slogans sagen. Ein Denkmal der schönen, arbeitenden, eigenständigen Frau. (Zumindest aus sozialistischer Sicht;) Ein bissi Blut&Boden ist auch dabei.
Vielleicht ein passendes Sujet für die kommende NÖ-Landtagswahl?
Gender issues in Czecho/Slovakia
Posted in Uncategorized with tags advertising, beer, Feminism, gender, Slovakia on 7 June 2017 by delclem
This is a beer ad on a bill board near Bratislava airport; the slogan says it all…
and the head belongs to the owner of the (Czech) brewery.
“Cherchez la femme” à la slovaque: a travesty of sorts.
Photo (c) by the author.
Croatia’s first (female) reporter
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Croatia, gender, journalism, Marija Jurić Zagorka, portrait, reporter, yugoslavia, Zagreb on 27 July 2013 by delclem
“Today everyone in Croatia knows the works of Marija Jurić Zagorka. This has not been always the case as it took the Croatian public quite long to recognise and acknowledge the significance of Zagorka’s contribution to equality between men and women.” >full text (c) wieninternational.at 2013
From Prague to Washington
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biography, Czechoslovakia, gender, Madeline Albright, Marie jana Korbelová, Prague, USA, Washington on 5 July 2013 by delclem
Street Art
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Burka, gender, Islam, NiqaBitch, Paris, Performance art, street art, women on 4 June 2013 by delclemIntelligent French street performance that undermines xenophobic as well as fundamentalist views of the “Muslim woman”. We’d urgently need some of those in Central Europe…
Performing the impossible
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Biedermeier, female authors, gender, Ida Pfeiffer, travel literature, Vienna, world travel on 9 May 2013 by delclem
Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858) “was a Viennese women of the Biedermeier era with one dream: she wanted to travel. In the nineteenth century it was impossible for women to fulfil this wish. So she made it her life to perform the impossible.”
>full text (c) wieninternational.at 2013
Below: Ms Pfeiffer in travel gear; lithography by Adolf Dauthage; photo: wikipedia Continue reading
“Lowbrow in High Places”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Bavaria, film, gender, Germany, Lederhosen, pornography, sexuality, Tyrol on 1 April 2013 by delclem
“Four decades ago, the southern German state of Bavaria became the birthplace of a film genre like no other: the Lederhosen Porn. The alpine meadows were rugged, the men wore leather trousers, the porn was soft — and Germany was hooked.” Today, these films tell us much about zeitgeist, sexuality and gender in the 1970s >full text (c) DER SPIEGEL INT’L, 2013
“Why did men stop wearing high heels?”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags cultural history, Europe, fashion, gender, high heels on 4 February 2013 by delclem
“For generations they have signified femininity and glamour – but a pair of high heels was once an essential accessory for men.” A survey of shoe history. >full text (c) BBC World Service 2013
Masculinity exposed in Vienna
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, art history, Austria, Europe, exhibition, gender, masculinity, nudity sexuality, review, Vienna on 6 January 2013 by delclem
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The successful exhibition Naked Men unveils male nudity: full-frontally.
delirium clemens 