Tag: Sexualisation

• The Gendered Garden: Sexual Transgression of Women Walking Alone in Cemeteries

  

  Romany Reagan has been walking in Abney Park Cemetery for a total of nine years, often alone. As a walking practitioner dedicated to encouraging new perspectives within cemetery space, a recent personal revelation called for self reflection and a much wider contemplation.

  Death and the Maiden

  10/10/2017

  Guest Post

  Abney Park Cemetery, Cemetery, Death & Space, Garden Cemetery, Male Gaze, Patriarchal Society, Psychogeography, Romany Reagan, Sexualisation, Society, Space, Walking Alone, Walking Practitioner, Walking Women, Women

• Shrouds or Lingerie? Traditional Female Burial Garments

  Patricia Lundy explores the relationship between death & the feminine regularly on her beautiful blog Somthng Eldritch. Through exploration of literature and Victorian history Patricia delves into the mourning rituals of a bygone era. In this post sexual suggestion and the male gaze is contemplated by visiting the works of two amazing authors. Kate Mayfield…

  Death and the Maiden

  28/03/2016

  Guest Post

  Anatomy, Beauty, Burial, Burial Shrouds, Chris Woodyard, Deadmaidens, Death, Delicate, Design, Edgar Allan Poe, Exposure, Fashion, Female, Kate Mayfield, Lingerie, Negligee, Objectification, Sexualisation, The Undertaker’s Daughter, The Victorian Book of the Dead, Vulnerability