On the erection of statues: Questions about memorials and gender

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On the erection of statues: Questions about memorials and gender

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Recent Black Lives Matter protests highlighted the symbolic potency of statues. But as much as statues can be problematic in what they memorialise, the absence of statues also speaks volumes. The gender statue gap is enormous. Discounting statues to royalty or mythical figures, only 13% of statues in the UK and 7% in the USA memorialise women. A quick glance around Christchurch shows the same pattern, with many dead white males on podiums, but only the Kate Sheppard memorial recognises the...

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Research Paper

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Conference paper

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2021

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Bowring, Jacqueline

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https://hdl.handle.net/10182/14540

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gender / memorials / politics of landscape

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