Femininity

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Masculinity

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Identity

Using different gazes of the genders to explore stereotypes in gender/sexuality

• Observe: Viewing how each gender sees the opposite and their own gender (i.e. women looking at men vs women)
• Seek: Look for other people’s views on gender and gender stereotypes
• Challenge: Looking at different gender stereotypes and going against them (masculinity vs femininity)

Photoshoot ideas:

• Using people of different genders to photograph and be part of different images using their own gaze to create them.
• Using the artists referenced (Yuri Yasumasa, Claude Cahun and Nancy Honey) to explore how the different genders view each gender
• Experimenting with gender fluidity and identity

Observe

verb.

1. to notice or perceive (something) and register it as being significant.
2. to make a remark.

synonyms

watch, study, view, look at, note, check, regard, survey, gaze at

etymology

• “to observe, watch over, follow” (10c.), from Latin observare
•  sense of “watch, perceive, notice” is from 1560s, via the notion of “see and note omens.”
• meaning “to say by way of remark” is from 1600s.

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Seek

verb.

1. to attempt to find (something).
2. to attempt or desire to obtain or achieve (something).
3. to ask for (something) from someone.

synonyms

search for, try to find, look for, look about for, look round for, look around for, cast about for, cast round for, cast around for, be on the lookout for, be after

etymology

• old English sēcan, of Germanic origin
• related to Dutch zieken and German suchen, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sagire ‘perceive by scent’.
• from PIE *sag-yo-, from root *sag- “to track down, seek out”

Challenge

noun.

1. a call to someone to participate in a competitive situation or fight to decide who is superior in terms of ability or strength.
2. a call to prove or justify something.

verb.

1. to invite (someone) to engage in a contest.
2. to dispute the truth or validity of.

synonyms

noun.

dare, provocation, summons, confrontation with, dispute with, stand against, test of, opposition, disagreement with, questioning of, defiance, ultimatum

verb.

question, disagree with, object to, take exception to, confront, dispute, take issue with, protest against, call into question, demur about/against, dissent from, be a dissenter from

etymology

• Middle English (in the senses ‘accusation’ and ‘accuse’)
• from Old French chalenge (noun), chalenger (verb)
• from Latin calumnia ‘calumny’, calumniari ‘calumniate’

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