Dress Fashion in Feminist and Child Rights Campaigns in Ghanaian Public Sculptures of the 1990s

Osuanyi Quaicoo Essel, Isaac Opoku-Mensah
2017 International Journal of Education and the Arts  
This article examines how dress fashion in outdoor sculptures of the 1990s in the Accra cityscape accentuated feminist activism, sensitised child right campaigns, and encouraged girl-child education in support of governmental efforts and activism of civil society organisations in Ghana. It gives attention to how dress fashion of the time was used in the social construction of feminist identities and the promotion of child rights through outdoor public cement sculptures. The study takes a
more » ... sciplinary dimension of looking into the synergy of using public sculpture for multiple attention-seeking constructs: dress fashion, feminism, child right and education. Simple narrative analysis was used in the presentation of data gathered through observation and photographic documentation of selected public sculptures
doi:10.18113/p8ijea1832 fatcat:ar4nqgrwyfbddlodn357fe35ha