Story: Women’s movement

White wedding (4th of 4)

White wedding

Traditional images of women were often subverted by feminist artists. In Jane Zusters’s 1978  ‘Portrait of a woman marrying herself’, she wears a white wedding dress.

Courtesy of Jane Zusters

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Reference: O.002706
Photograph by Jane Zusters

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How to cite this page:

Megan Cook, 'Women’s movement - Arts and spirituality', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/28771/white-wedding (accessed 16 April 2024)

Story by Megan Cook, published 5 May 2011