Having started my essay thoughts on what I am going to produce for my practical have started to come about. The response to my essay will be a poster series of at least four, on topics that are relevant to fourth wave feminism.
Whilst writing the essay, the structure and question have also slightly changed, below is what it was originally:
"To what extent has graphic design helped the feminist movement on the course to equal rights?"
- Feminist history - political, social (the vote, abortion rights etc) (how society views women)
- How design was used to promote the movement and protest
- Successful changes - more job opportunities (less stay at home mothers)
- The history of graphic design - the focus predominately male / women aren't featured in books, magazines, in exhibitions
- Lot of progress but still unequal - pay gap/ underrepresented/ percentage in higher roles
I have now changed it to: How have graphic design and visual arts been a part of the feminist movement on the course to equal rights? The reason for this is that I wanted to be able to include installation art and other aspects that are really relevant to the movement in terms of art and design but don't quite fall under the label of graphic design.
The structure has also changed:
- intro
- first wave feminism history
- first wave feminism art and design
- second wave feminism history
- second wave feminism art and design
- third wave feminism history
- third wave feminism art and design
- fourth wave feminism history
- fourth wave feminism art and design
- conclusion
The previous structure included topics that weren't necessarily relevant to the question in hand, through the essay I will also discuss anti feminist pieces.
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