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ELEKTRA KB - Strange Body

from SYNTHESIS VOL​.​1 by International Female Composers

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"According to an analysis of recent pain research by Hoffmann and Tarzian they say:

“Women are more likely than men to seek treatment for their pain and are less likely to receive it. The authors suggest that physicians may treat women less for pain based on the presumption women can handle more pain or, conversely, that women are in fact imagining pain where none exists.”

Is the patriarchal system still seeing women inherently as reproductive machines, therefore subtracts importance of women’s pain, because of misconceptions that since women are “built” to tolerate the pain of child birth, they must be built to “take it” However way it comes? One can’t help but see a pattern of hierarchization of sentience. Men on top of the sentience capability pyramid, followed by women, then followed by non-human animals.

Artistically and culturally we have always been force-fed images of men in pain with grandeur. From the Laocoön to Christ, the suffering male invades religious and political imagery that build the social constructs and the visuality of suffering. Masculine pain is iconic, yet images of women in pain are far from reaching icon status and it is hard to picture a quintessential artwork of a woman in pain in the big art historical context. Yet, one can picture a myriad of art works of men in pain, not limited to the suffering of war and often with a component of heroism.

The Pietá and the Laocoön are landmarks of masculine pain representation in art. There are no equivalent works that represent feminine pain with such seminal status. Masculine pain is associated often with grandiosity while feminine pain is often associated with madness."

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from SYNTHESIS VOL​.​1, released November 14, 2014

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