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In The Frame: Tracey Emin—Eminist or Feminist?

Art and Design post by Polly Allen on November 11, 2011 - 11:04am; tagged art, battle of the sexes, female artists, menstruation, self image, Tracey Emin.
As one of the most controversial artists of modern times, Tracey Emin has generated serious column inches for her overtly personal work, including the installation My Bed (complete with condoms) and her series of autobiographical appliquéd blankets, littered with swear words. David Bowie called her "William Blake as a woman." But is she standing up for women everywhere with our shared life experiences, or is she only interested in using herself as subject matter?
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Compromising Positions

Article by Kathleen Collins, published in 2003; filed under Broadcast; tagged battle of the sexes, design, gendered space, home decorating, tv.
Gender by design on <em>Merge</em> and <em>Mix It Up</em>

Mass media, particularly so-called family television, from Bewitched to Everybody Loves Raymond, has long portrayed the home as women’s domain, an ultra-feminized realm in which housewives bustle and cluck while their hapless husbands do little more than hand out spending money and retreat to the most masculine part of the house: the study, or their favorite chair. There’s no denying the cult of the man’s chair in TV history: Those who knew Archie Bunker knew never to sit in his chair.

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