
Butterflies of Charity, n.d.

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Role models. Many female dancers dealt with given role structures and criticized gender specific role attributions. The nun is seen as embodiment of a nonsexual woman who dedicates her life to God. Hence the play with the nun’s costume is a game with female physicality and sexuality. Here we meet Mura Ziperowitsch, who by wearing a nun similar costume refers to the female corporality.
source Vienna Pride at Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Robert Doisneau :: Les nonnes s’envolent /
The nuns fly away, 1947 / src Atelier Robert Doisneau via
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Leonard Freed :: Nuns, Old Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Little Italy, NYC, 1956
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