Women and political protest
July 24th, 2006
Women’s Space/The Margins has a great article on Iraqi women’s blogs, All Iraq Was Kidnapped: Voices of Iraqi Women. It includes this photo of Shia women protesting:
The front woman’s expanse of heaving, black-cloth and the sheer vigour of her body reminded me of this poster for Women’s Day in Germany, 1914 - banned in Berlin at the time for it’s radical illustration of women’s physical political force:
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