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University of New Orleans

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

2014

Feminism, birds, idioms, gender, sculpture, fiber

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You Are A Weird Bird., Natalie H. Mclaurin Dec 2014

You Are A Weird Bird., Natalie H. Mclaurin

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

How a person is treated because of their gender is potentially very frustrating. I use bird plumage patterns to illustrate humans as animals and idioms in language to illustrate these ideas.

The artworks by Natalie McLaurin mentioned in the paper are You didn’t see me, Untitled. Nancy Horne, Don’t be such a Nostradamus Wild Beast, Don’t be such a Nostradamus Man Beast, Don’t be such a Nostradamus Air Beast, Don’t be such a Nostradamus Domesticated Beast, Ballet Lessons, Throwing a Fit and Falling in it, Gravel Kick, Cocksure, Peckerhead …