Fortunately, there are an awful lot of shameless hussies around on the fringe, repossessing the naked female body and making us think again about how we gaze at it. It’s also the way that they reclaim the naked female body as something to be proud of rather than an object of shame or a sex object to be possessed by men. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Skilful and hilarious … Lucy McCormick in Triple Threat. Henriksen’s show highlights the fact that we make distinctions between the female body exposed in a strip club and the same female body doing exactly the same movements on a stage in Underbelly. And if getting that message across involves flaunting the naked female body then so be it, because – as the seminal 70s feminist handbook of women’s health proclaimed – these are “Our Bodies, Ourselves”.

Source: The Guardian August 14, 2016 14:54 UTC