Visions of Sex Presentation: The Covered Body-Research.

In Mourning and In Rage.....

A memorial event staged for mass media coverage on Tuesday 13th December 1977, Los Angeles. The event was created by artsist Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz-Starus in collaboration with Bia Lowe, women from the Woman's Building, Women Aagainst Viloence Against Women. Los Angeles Commissions on Assaults Against Women, and City Council woman Pat Russel.

The use of veiling within a form of protest inevitably relates to the traditions of mourning and to the idea of power exisiting within, yet has also been used as a uniform ritual enabling the women to come together as a collective statement of unity and aggressive action. The use of veils also enabled the artists to challenge common representations of the women as victim or potential victim within advertising, news and entertainment media, creating a uniform representation of the female form as powerful and somewhat threatening.

-analised through the reading of ' In Mourning and in Rage..., Frontiers: A Journal of Woman Studies, Vol 3,No 1 (Spring 1978) pp52-55.