{"id":39025,"date":"2011-09-30T10:51:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T15:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=39025"},"modified":"2017-09-17T13:57:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T18:57:17","slug":"yolanda-dominguez-exposing-the-artificiality-of-women-in-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/09\/30\/yolanda-dominguez-exposing-the-artificiality-of-women-in-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Yolanda Dominguez: Exposing the Artificiality of Women in Fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi and Katie sent in a link to a fabulous photo project in which typical model poses are reproduced in real life by real people. The photos, by Madrid-based artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yolandadominguez.com\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yolanda Dominguez<\/a>, reveal just how distorted fashion, and expectations for women, have become. In an interview, Dominguez <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsnicethat.com\/articles\/yolanda-dominguez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I tried to express what many women feel about women\u2019s magazines and the image of women in the media \u2013 absurd, artificial, a hanger to wear dresses and bags, only concerned about being skinny, beautiful. We don\u2019t identify with this type of woman \u2013 we are much more. I used the impossible poses to represent this type of woman and to show how absurd it is in a real context&#8230; [The] poses of the women are ridiculous \u2013 they seem dead, twisted, pulled. Why are men never put in these positions? They are always straight, successful, able and healthy&#8230; I try to express deep questions (sometimes dramatic) but always with irony and humour. I feel that when you can laugh at something you can get rid of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See more from Yolanda Dominguez at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yolandadominguez.com\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi and Katie sent in a link to a fabulous photo project in which typical model poses are reproduced in real life by real people. The photos, by Madrid-based artist Yolanda Dominguez, reveal just how distorted fashion, and expectations for women, have become. In an interview, Dominguez explains: I tried to express what many women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,225,55,2103],"class_list":["post-39025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-clothesfashion","tag-gender","tag-gender-bodies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39025"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71482,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39025\/revisions\/71482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}