Women Artists Cross the Homosocial Divide

HUFFINGTON POST
By Roger Denson

USA--This is the first in a 7-part series on women artists charting out and crossing the homosocial divide. The following is from just one of the paragraphs examining historical religious depictions of women through contemporary religious depictions of women by the artist as examiner versus the artist as a tool of the religious establishment: "The photographs of Shirin Neshat, from Iran and Laila Essaydi from Morocco and Saudia Arabia, exemplify the kind of rare passage through the historic homosocial barriers of chadors and screens keeping fundamentalist Muslim women and men apart at the same time that they keep Islamic societies from being understood by the modern, secular world." [link]