#willendorf venus

gowns:

evidence that ancient paleolithic venus statues were made by women who were examining their own bodies and sculpting them from their own point of view, not, as previously assumed, exaggerated features from an outside perspective

source:toward decolonizing gender: female vision in the upper paleolithic, catherine hodge mccoid and leroy mcdermott, 1996

Reblogging this again on Mothers’ Day, hoping that stupid Tumblr doesn’t censor art and history again.