meliciously yours designer tees presentation

Melissa Slaven-WarrenCreator of Meliciously Yours

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Gender, Art, and FashionWeaving historic femininity from art

and literature with messages of modern day feminism into fashion

• Create a place of peace within the home

• Have children and tend to the household

• No legal rights, no claim to property

• Denied the privilege of a formal education

• Must be pure, sexually passive, disinterested

• Should “be seen and not heard”

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Gender Roles in Polite Victorian

Society

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Gender Roles in Polite Victorian

Society • Manners and etiquette

• Femininity

• Compassion

• Sisterhood

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Art and Literature

• A Questioning of sexual and social identity

• Pictorial art and literature reflected this cultural process.

• For the first time, women were major writers and painters, like the Bronte sisters and Mary Cassatt.

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Art and Literature

• The influences behind my designs are a culmination of the gender roles, the art, literature, and the sisterhood.

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Bird Cages as Symbolism

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Women as Sexual Beings

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Beauty Vs. Brains