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Título: Undressing the Virgin Mary: nudity and gendered art
Autores/as: Del Mar Pérez-Gil, María 
Clasificación UNESCO: 570107 Lengua y literatura
550613 Historia de la literatura
Palabras clave: Virgin Mary
Nudity
Ideologized body
Corporeality
Identity, et al.
Fecha de publicación: 2017
Publicación seriada: Feminist Theology 
Resumen: Stripping the Virgin Mary of the myths, stories, and dogmas surrounding her is a task that has particularly appealed to a branch of feminist theology which seeks to reclaim her as a figure of female empowerment. This article aims to explore the transformation of Mary's body into an element of resistance in the work of some contemporary artists. By depicting her nude or semi-nude, artists disrupt the gender values commonly associated with the Virgin and open up alternative possibilities of affirmative selfhood through her body. I contend that, in these works, the Virgin's body functions as a 'relational' body that enters into dialogue with hitherto marginalized categories, such as the carnal, the sensual, the notion of fleshly materiality, or even the excluded sexualities of transgender people.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/41658
ISSN: 0966-7350
DOI: 10.1177/0966735016679907
Fuente: Feminist Theology[ISSN 0966-7350],v. 25, p. 208-221
URL: https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85008698410
Colección:Artículos
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