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White wedding

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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

by Jane Zusters

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Megan Cook, Women’s movement – Arts and spirituality, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28771/white-wedding (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Megan Cook, published 7 April 2011.