Male and Female Roles In Britain

Masculinity and femininity are traits that are passed down through generation and through culture. The traits we develop are initially supposed to help within each gender role, but these are much more subjective now than what they use to be. The biggest change in gender roles occurred during the wars in the 20th century when the men were enlisted to fight in other countries, the women had to take over the more industrial "Male" jobs like farming, manufacturing and building. This led to women feeling more empowered to change things and have more rights and be able to vote and work etc.

     So the wars where when things changed, thats when the roles got altered and skewed and I think that this will be a good theme to use for the subjects to the sculpture/lamp because the objects are more obviously associated with a gender and more fun and contradictory to warp.