Graduate Thesis Or Dissertation
Amazing Grace Public Deposited
- Abstract
My Thesis Exhibition, entitled Amazing Grace. addresses the victimization and lack of real power of women in our society. These concerns stem from my life experiences as a woman from the Bible Belt of the South in the 1950s and 60s. I'm interested in the male dominated power that existed within my family and church, that provided for me a microcosm of the whole of our society.
My sermon is based on helpful hints to my sisters in the audience, on how to control your man, while making him believe he is still the boss. I still included traditional female heroines of the Bible in my sermon, but they are role models for totally different reasons. For example, Eve, who has traditionally been blamed for enticing her husband into participating in "The Fall Of Man", is a positive role model, as she used typical southern womanly wiles to get her husband to do her bidding. She also knew her influence did not reside with God, but with the feminine power symbol, the snake. Mary also remains an important figure but for different reasons than the traditional interpretation presents. This woman managed to remain the Virgin Mother throughout history, while actually convincing her fiance that her pre-wedding pregnancy was induced by God! My Southernettes worship her for her fertility, and her cunning deception of man. See attached copy of sermon).
My performance will be related to both of these women's style. I will be using "myself" as subject matter, but I will also be addressing important social issues of power, and how that power structure is a part of our society and religion that keeps women "in their place". The precedence of the feminist art movement, as a visual expression of the feminist movement, has challenged this structure and allowed change to occur.
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- 1990-05-12
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- 2021-04-20
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