Life of a “Real Woman”

Presenter: Nicole Jester

Presenter Status: Undergraduate student

Academic Year: 19-20

Semester: Spring

Department: Art

Funding Source/Sponsor: SYRCE Symposium

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Abstract:
Nicole Jester 

Life of a “Real Woman”, 2020 

Magazine poster board collage 

Advertisements in the 1970’s that focused on women have been stereotyped for their looks, and the qualities that a woman should uphold. Women should look and dress a certain way and maintain their household duties taking care of their children while their husband is away at work making money to support the family. People would criticize women for their clothing, how they acted, whether it was lady-like. In the advertisement they put out their own image and created a “woman” that stood to their  standards. This made women scared to be anything but a woman on a cover of a magazine trying to meet other peoples standards rather than their own.

This piece captures different forms of women and figures that represent feminism in drawings and how women were captured in the 1970’s using different digital photos of models in advertisement. Body types and races of how women were viewed and seen by others. Women on covers in magazines, captured women who would draw people's attention to the stereotype of the life of a “real woman” and what they would look like. This is inspired by Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills that constructs the idea of a woman's image that points out the absurdity of female stereotypes. By looking at these images there are all kinds of women in the world and not every woman looks like what we see in advertisements. Love yourself for who you are and don’t let a picture of someone else tell you differently. We must respect women for who they are and what they look like because we are all human and should be treated equally.