I do not often listen to BBC Radio 4's Start the Week, but today's edition had a nice exploration of gender in performance art, with Grayson Perry being an inciteful participant.
The programme is 43 minutes long and you can download the mp3 and listen offline. The BBC page below includes some of the works mentioned.
It may spark some ideas for better Wikipedia articles around the history of people performing as different genders without the focus being on conventional drag or transvestites. There is also a discussion of nude modelling for art, which could be interesting to think about in the context of how fraught images of nudity hosted on Wikimedia projects tends to be.
Links * http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b078xf12
Fae
On the subject of masculinity, the English Wikipedia article on masculinity mentions absolutely nothing about female masculinity. There is no mention of butches, tomboys, drag kings, etc. This seems to be a pretty huge hole in the article and a good example of Wikipedia's systemic bias. There's an entire section on "Femininity in men" in the Femininity article, but no equivalent for women in the masculinity article. Jack Halberstam's book "Female Masculinity" would be a good source to use for such a section.
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
I do not often listen to BBC Radio 4's Start the Week, but today's edition had a nice exploration of gender in performance art, with Grayson Perry being an inciteful participant.
The programme is 43 minutes long and you can download the mp3 and listen offline. The BBC page below includes some of the works mentioned.
It may spark some ideas for better Wikipedia articles around the history of people performing as different genders without the focus being on conventional drag or transvestites. There is also a discussion of nude modelling for art, which could be interesting to think about in the context of how fraught images of nudity hosted on Wikimedia projects tends to be.
Links
Fae
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The real problem is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_role#Gender_stereotypes
Of course "gender" stereotype is just a confusing word for sex stereotype. (After all, would we want to call this the "sex gap" group??)
I mean should a person who wants NO stereotype be forced to choose from one of a hundred stereotypes, like on Facebook? Silly.
On 5/2/2016 1:42 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
On the subject of masculinity, the English Wikipedia article on masculinity mentions absolutely nothing about female masculinity. There is no mention of butches, tomboys, drag kings, etc. This seems to be a pretty huge hole in the article and a good example of Wikipedia's systemic bias. There's an entire section on "Femininity in men" in the Femininity article, but no equivalent for women in the masculinity article. Jack Halberstam's book "Female Masculinity" would be a good source to use for such a section.
I added a few sentences on female masculinity to get things started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculinity#Masculinity_in_women
Feel free to add more!
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
On the subject of masculinity, the English Wikipedia article on masculinity mentions absolutely nothing about female masculinity. There is no mention of butches, tomboys, drag kings, etc. This seems to be a pretty huge hole in the article and a good example of Wikipedia's systemic bias. There's an entire section on "Femininity in men" in the Femininity article, but no equivalent for women in the masculinity article. Jack Halberstam's book "Female Masculinity" would be a good source to use for such a section.
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
I do not often listen to BBC Radio 4's Start the Week, but today's edition had a nice exploration of gender in performance art, with Grayson Perry being an inciteful participant.
The programme is 43 minutes long and you can download the mp3 and listen offline. The BBC page below includes some of the works mentioned.
It may spark some ideas for better Wikipedia articles around the history of people performing as different genders without the focus being on conventional drag or transvestites. There is also a discussion of nude modelling for art, which could be interesting to think about in the context of how fraught images of nudity hosted on Wikimedia projects tends to be.
Links
Fae
faewik@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
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