The expression of the various claims on the right of The Woman to own her freedom/body still implies the dissemination of the image of the body  (naked, female) in a kind of pseudo-revolutionary naivety.

On her body, this Femen Tunisian activist has written: " My body belongs to me, it is not anyone's honor'". 


(Heavily condemned by Islamist movements, it seems her facebook page has since been hacked by  an islamist hacker by the name Al Angour, and she is reported missing).

The Body as empty provocation, for destined to those who condemn it because it is a Body.

The Body as an offering, given as Object to the external gaze of those who already consider it as such.

Make-up and cigarettes, you’re not worth my gaze, but read (on)my body, be voyeur (build me with your gaze, give me a meaning) and be outraged. Fuck you.

Tired style devices for staging femininity. Is that it, really?

It is not so much this body that informs us about the state of womens’ rights, but rather the extent and nature of the reactions to this image and its distribution on social networks and media ...

Is the Offensive, Guilty Body, less so without nipples?

Pseudo-revolution of censored nipples and gazing away…

Will the photoshop-surviving nipples move the mountains  of structural violence against women?

                                     
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L'expression des revendications diverses sur le droit de La Femme a disposer de son corps passe encore par la diffusion du corps (toujours nu et feminin) dans une espece  de naivete pseudo-revolutionnaire. 


Sur son corps, cette activiste de Femen Tunisie ecrit: " Mon corps m'appartient, il n'est l'honneur de personne".


(Il semblerait que , condamnee par des mouvements islamistes, ayant recu de menaces de mort, sa page facebook a ete pirate par Al Angour, pirate islamiste declare, et la jeune femme n'est plus joignable.)

Le Corps comme provocation destinee a ceux qui le condamnent parce qu'il est Corps. Le Corps en offrende, donne -a voir-en tant qu'objet, a ceux qui le considerent deja comme tel.

Maquillage et cigarettes, je ne vous regarde pas, mais lisez (sur)mon corps, soyez voyeurs (votre regard me construit, me donne sens) et soyez scandalises.  Je vous emmerde.

Recours de style fatigues pour une mise en scene de la feminite reveindicative. Est-ce cela, vraiment?

C'est ne pas tellement ce corps qui nous informe sur l'etat de La Femme et de ses Droits, mais plutot l'ampleur des reactions a cette image et sa difusion sur les reseaux sociaux et medias...

Mais le Corps Offensif et Coupable, est-il moins corps sans tetons?

Pseudo-revolution de tetons censures et regard nie....

Bougeront les tetons rescapes du photoshop, les montagnes de la violence stucturelle envers les femmes?

m perolini
3/31/2013 12:32:56 am

where did you find this pic? and what's written on this woman's chest? (can't read the last word)....

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mery
3/31/2013 04:48:47 pm

Found it on facebook. It's all over the net. She wrote : My body belongs to me, it is nobody's honour" (ammended info on the text, sorry)

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9/18/2013 01:07:15 am

I am sure the intent of the photo is good, problem is always interpretations, We all know the sensitive nature of Moslem societies, how to go about it without causing an outrage is really the point to ponder upon I think.

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