Throughout human history, women have been perceived by patriarchy as mere possessions or as empty vessels into which men have poured their own ideals of beauty, maternal purity and perfection, as well as evil, perverse sexuality and treachery.

These images of women, contradictory at first, have one thing in common: the denial of women’s humanity and their depiction as an absolute Other on which all violence can be inflicted and justified.

This photography series is a tribute to all women who have been subjected to gender violence (which is all of us to some extent) and a reminder of the long road still ahead.

América Lainez – Nicaraguan Writer 

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