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Melissa Slaven-Warren Creator of Meliciously Yours Weaving Feminism
1. Melissa Slaven-Warren
Creator of Meliciously Yours
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Gender, Art, and Fashion
Weaving historic femininity from art and literature
with messages of modern day feminism into fashion
2. • Create a place of peace within the home
• Have children and tend to the household
• No legal rights, no claim to property
• Denied the privilege of a formal education
• Must be pure, sexually passive, disinterested
• Should “be seen and not heard”
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Gender Roles in Polite
Victorian Society
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Gender Roles in Polite
Victorian Society
• Manners and etiquette
• Femininity
• Compassion
• Sisterhood
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Art and Literature
• A Questioning of sexual and social identity
• Pictorial art and literature reflected this
cultural process.
• For the first time, women were major writers
and painters, like the Bronte sisters and Mary
Cassatt.
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Art and Literature
• The influences behind my designs are a
culmination of the gender roles, the art,
literature, and the sisterhood… fueled by a
single event…