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"Examines the objectification of women in a technological society. In the primary scene, a woman's body is measured in a clinical setting and compared with standard measurements. Voiceovers, symbolic scenes, and photographs suggest the implications of using social standards of measurement."@en
"Examines the objectification of women in a technological society. In the primary scene, a woman's body is measured in a clinical setting and compared with standard measurements. Voiceovers, symbolic scenes, and photographs suggest the implications of using social standards of measurement."
"This chilling tape probes the objectification of women in a technological society. At its core is a long, continuous shot that reveals the part-by-part measurement and evaluation of a woman by a white-coated male examiner and a chorus of three women assistants. The filmmaker asks: How do we come to see ourselves as objects? How do fragmentation and comparison assist in social control? The final sequences of this film which explores the socially dictated feminine self-image, presents re-framed government photos of women being measured, accompanied by a voiceover litany of "crimes against women.""@en
"Rosler probes the objectification of women and others in a technological bureaucratic society."
"This tape examines the objectification of women in a technological society. In the primary scene, a woman's body is measured in a clinical setting and compared with standard measurements. Voiceovers, symbolic scenes, and photographs suggest the implications of using social standards of measurement."@en
"Videomaker, photographer and author Martha Rosler uses the image of a wormen being measured in a clinical environment to convey her messages : sexual stereotyping, enforced social standards, social control."@en
"Examines women's bodies as objects living in a technological society through the measurement and judgement of a woman in a clinical setting."
"Examines the objectification of women in a technological society. In the primary scene, a woman's body is measured in a clinical setting and compared with standard measurements. Voiceovers, symbolic scenes, and photographs suggest the implications of using social standards of measurement."
"First presented as a live performance, the narrative is told in one long continuous shot of a male examiner and his assistant measuring a female subject inch by inch. A trio of women wearing white lab coats watch and ring bells or blow whistles when standard measurements are met. A voiceover comments about dehumanization, the structuring of self-perception and the internalization of society's standards as the systematic evaluation continues until the subject has removed all of her clothes. The final segment is a series of black and white photos of women and children being measured while a voice states a litany of crimes against women. Reminiscent of images from concentration camps and oppressive political regimes or armed forces, this is an example of one of Rosler's more pointed feminist pieces."
"Explores the feminine self-image as dictated by society."@en
"Examines the objectification of women in a technological society. In the primary scene, a woman's body is measured in a clinical setting and compared with standard measurements. Voiceovers, symbolic scenes, and photographs suggest the implications of using social standards of measurement. The video opens with an extended voiceover a dark screen."
"SUMMARY: Explores women's dual consciousness, the social control of women's bodies, standards of measurement. Uses voice-overs, intersperses with symbolic scenes, photographs."@en