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‘Le prix d’être une femme’ speaks about beeing a womxn. It’s taken from my personal experience. I am
highlighting the constant insecurities and fears we may have within us.

I want to speak about the right that a lot of men take, as they raised in the patriarchal system believing we, as womxn owe them. It is very interesting to have a look at the male gaze, at toxic masculinity, and see what comes out of it. The ways men allow themselves to look at womxn, cat-call them, grab them.

Although we might not speak about it all the time, and we walk on and pretend it isn’t happening it is absolutely integrated into our daily lives and all around us. How many times have I been catcalled, or grabbed, I didn’t do anything, I wasn’t dressed in a provocative way, I didn’t provoke. The womxn has to consider not only her sexuality but also the impact her existence will have on the male’s sexuality – The fashioned body, 2015, Entwistle.

This work is around a journal extract from last summer. Making a female body in a textile structure, in a fetal position, displayed on the floor. After elimination and research on processes and materials, I chose to use lace and crochet.