7.

DISSERTATION DECIDED

So today I had a meeting with Julia and we spoke about different questions concerning gender I had been thinking about:

- WHAT does is MEAN to be culturally Male or Female?
- HOW is gender performed?
- HOW is gender defined?
- WHAT makes a woman?
- WHAT makes a man?
- DOES sex = gender?
- SHOULD a male be masculine and a female be feminine?

and also touched on gender roles and stereotypes and how they can be portrayed through photography.

We then began to look at Jo Spence and Rosy Martin and using photo therapy as ways of exploring gender and gender roles.

From there, I decided to focus on using photography and photo therapy to explore gender, gender roles and gender stereotypes.

I am going to do a series of photo therapy shoots with a male friend and in each one, we are going to take it in turns to explore a different specific role, male OR female and blur the boundaries of what it means to be culturally and genetically male or female.