Speechless By Anne Winegar Analysis

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I believe Art doesn’t always present only one thing and it could potentially mean several other ideas that could only advertise political inference. In Winegar’s article, the broad theme is linked to oppression of women through the context of political art. The Middle Eastern society is often a male-dominated society and often women’s voices do not matter. One of the participants in Winegar’s article name Shirin Neshat expresses the inequality through her photograph named “Speechless”. The photograph shows “where a barrel of a gun stands in as a women’s earring” (p.669). Winegar (2008) state, “her art as showing and challenging women’s oppression in the middle east and the inequality between men and women” (p.670). The interpretation of western

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