PENYINTAS - On Women, Power and Traditions #3
, by Biasa Group, 1 min reading time
BODY, FREEDOM AND AWARENESS
A woman’s awareness of her body is a meeting point between sensitivity to the socio-political construct that surrounds her and the personal situation when the body are experienced to the most. Many women have been trained—through repressive environments or by consciously defining the female body in the terms and perspectives of others—to distance themselves from their own bodies and see bodies as part of a social taboo. In various aspects of life—religion, politics, economy—women’s bodies appear as objects that are controlled and capitalized.
