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Culture is a place where the social arrangements of gender can be
contested. Cultural ideologies and institutions reinforce the dualistic
separation of male and female. This is particularly so for women's
place in cultural production (as artists, authors, patrons, and
members of cultural institutions) and in the dominant modes of
cultural representation, such as literature and the visual arts, where
the constructed notions of gender have a strong presence.
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