Post 4- Politics of Sex

           

     

                   The policing of women's bodies is something that women are no stranger to; the subject of abortion demonstrates this. In Gay's "Alienable Rights of Women" she writes "Pregnancy is at once a private and public experience. Pregnancy is private because it is so very personal. It happens within the body, in a perfect world pregnancy would be an intimate experience shared by a woman and her partner alone but for various reasons that is not possible" and this is due to numerous legislations put in place to limit a woman in doing whatever she wants when it comes to pregnancy, especially one that is unwanted.  

Nicki Minaj's bottom being "edited" in the cover of HER single cover "Anaconda".

                We live in a patriarchal society, there's no denying that and you would think that because we live in a patriarchal society that a photo such as the one above would be a visual playground for a lot of the males out in the world but that isn't the case. Overtly sexual images such as the one above wasn't as well-received as you would think and that is largely contributed to the fact that this was Nicki's work. It wasn't playboy magazine or King magazine (these magazines are geared and created for men), it was Nicki's and as soon as a woman is doing something on her terms, in her way, that's a threat and it needs to be 'policied' hence, the blocking out of Nicki's bottom. A lot of this also relates to John Berger's  "Ways of Seeing" whereby he writes "...that men watch women watch themselves" (Berger, 55).


Berger, John.  Ways of Seeing. London: Penguin, 1972.
Gay, Roxanne. "Alienable Rights of Women".