meliciously yours designer tees presentation
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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