Melissa Slaven-Warren Creator of Meliciously Yours

www.melicioustees.com 910-520-2917

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Gender, Art, and Fashion Weaving 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… fueled by a single event…

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Bird Cages as Symbolism

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Women as Sexual Beings

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Beauty Vs. Brains

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Conclusion

“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.”

- Oscar Wilde