"The independent woman" - Susan

"Una donna che lavora, ha bisogno - come il maschio - non soltanto di appagare i suoi desideri fisici ma di conoscere la distensione, lo svago che procurano fortunate avventure sessuali. Ora, vi sono ancora degli ambienti in cui questa libertà non è concretamente riconosciuta alla donna; essa corre il rischio, se ne fa uso, di compromettere la sua reputazione, la sua carriera, perlomeno si pretende da lei una fastidiosa ipocrisia."
da "Il secondo sesso" di Simone de Beauvoir.

'The Independent Woman' is also the title of a charter of the essay by de Beauvoir from 1949. These photographs have as their subjects dolls,' sovereign objects', imitations of perfect women, emancipated.
The autoeroticism in which they are protagonists aim to be a symbol, an ikon of independence achieved from the male.
Equality between the sexes, something that once seemed so close to being achieved without too much hardship, but seen from a distance of 60 years from de Beauvoir's analysis, seems to contain the same contradictions, the same difficulties. On the other hand one has the impression of having reached an historic moment of truce: a tacit recognition, without victor or vanquished, of the impossibility of the much heralded equality.