Falling Asleep, Jacilia Rucker-Glasper, 2024
John Berger, Ways of Seeing
"Presence for a woman is so intrinsic to her person that men tend to think of it as an almost physical emanation, a kind of heat or smell or aura."
"The contradiction can be stated simply. On the one hand the individualism of the artist, the thinker, the patron, the owner: on the other hand, the person who is the object of their activities – the woman – treated as a thing or an abstraction."
The passage discusses how a woman's presence is seen as inherent to her identity, often perceived as a physical emanation by men. It highlights the contradiction between the individualism of those who engage with women and the objectification of women as things or abstractions.
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