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Sexuality and consent through the gaze of the artists a blurry notion crushed by a patriarchal society by Juliette Gadenne
How the artists perform or stand up about the notion of consent In this article, I would like to present some artists who found their way to express and highlight the issue of women’s sexuality and consent in our societies. Some of them were already aware of the situation in the 60’s and were trying to experiment with their body. It is today an issue that is still very present, for
of the huge amount of women experiencing sexual harassment. Indeed, more than 6 millions of women expressed on social media the situations they had been to.
In France, for example, a man tries or achieve to rape a woman every 9 minutes. (Source: France Culture Radio)
example with the case of the American producer Harvey Weinstein, accused of sexual ha- All kind of sexual activities without consent is rassment by dozens of women, the movement supposed to be considered as a rape or sexual #MeToo in 2017 appeared and gave a platform assault.
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