Naked Politics: Nudity, Political Action, and the Rhetoric of the Body
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This protestor argues that "naked people She observes that the outcome of war is usually dictated by inequality, with victors being those that hold the most power. Stripping away this power by removing weapons and uniforms, both sides are made equal, and conflict cannot occur. This protestor's views stem from the idea that nudity renders everyone equal, and that equality resolves conflict.
In almost any protest, inequality draws attention to perceived injustices. When a bare chest is pressed against a canon as in Ladislav Bielik's ' End of the Prague Spring ' , the stark inequality seems unfair.
Naked politics : nudity, political action, and the rhetoric of the body
The conflict is revealed as unjust, with the opponents clearly presented as victim and oppressor. It is not the case, however, that nudity in these contexts necessarily evokes sympathy. It can often be a show of strength. In these same wartime scenarios, nudity can be employed to signify active resistance.
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The nude body is primal, animalistic, and it is not uncommon for it to be accompanied by bared teeth or a war cry. These are aggressive displays of the primal male, stripped of all material signs of civility. Perniola has observed the connections between nudity and savagery [4].
Naked Politics : Nudity, Political Action, and the Rhetoric of the Body
In this reading, the stripping of the human body represents a descent into savagery, making the subject potentially liable to unpredictable and aggressive resistance. Here, the naked body conveys the message that resistors will not give up without a fight. Female protestors are more inclined to use their bodies as an invitation to "make love not war", using sexuality to distract and disarm. Such methods present "love" and, by extension, "sex" and "war" as mutually exclusive extremes.
The feminist group Femen has found international notoriety by protesting topless. Their nudity is a protest against objectification, specifically the feeling that women have been "stripped of ownership" of their own bodies [5]. Ironically, these demonstrations rely on the very thing that they seek to end.
Their nudity is only powerful for as long as it is repressed. Femen members use the power of nudity to counteract patriarchy.
Though this is not because they feel that nudity has innate power in itself. They achieve power via, not through, nakedness.
Nudity is a tool by which to achieve media coverage, and by Femen's admission, it is this press coverage that provides power against their oppressors [6]. Conscious that their breasts will be the focus of observers' attention, Femen protesters write their messages of protest directly on their torsos. The fact that viewers are drawn to read these messages reinforces their argument that they are being objectified.
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