The project examines a feminised approach to social and cultural resistance, it begins to study and critique the overtly masculinised mode of anarchist behaviour embodied in films such as Fight Club. Throughout the media, resistance to dominant ideologies – capitalism, democracy, Christianity – is carried out largely by male protagonists, when strong female characters are included their femininity, sexuality and gender-centre is shifted to either a fetishised or de-sexualised state i.e. they’re either ‘lebian-ised’ or ‘croft-ified’ [ref: the word croftified has its origins in the ancient world of Tomb Raider].
How does political, economic and cultural resistance become embodied in the tools and objects that you surround yourself with? How can women adopt radical approaches to life without them loosing their ‘femininity’? What are the first rules of female fight club? How can alternative views and subversive action be taken to the ‘desperate housewives’ of suburban England?
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