Conditional Bodies
Medium: Print
My project, Conditional Bodies, is a book that examines how institutional systems shape the way women’s bodies are understood, validated, and controlled. It explores how women’s bodies are conditionally loved and accepted within systems like medicine, education, and media. Credibility, autonomy, and value are often granted only when the body is compliant, desirable, or easily understood. When it is painful, complex, aging, or resistant, it becomes questioned or dismissed. This project asks who gets to decide which experiences of the female body are valid.
Informed by research on gender bias in healthcare, gaps in sex education, and objectification in media, this work highlights how these systems have historically centered male perspectives. It aims to make these patterns visible and challenge how women’s lived experiences are recognized and valued.
