Neapolitan

I didn't make the connection cause it doesn't look like a robot to me. What it reminded me of was the woman (who's standing) in this painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, however with a more athletic figure.

I thought saw females wrapped in wrapped something a cocoon, or maybe Egyptian cotton sheets, but I only saw the one picture and couldn't be sure. I chalked it up to pareidolia.

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Lisnaholic

Quite literally, *googles pareidolia*: that's an impressive word to have at your disposal!

One reason we've disscussed the MW statue at such length is that it seems to embody or lead into a bunch of intriguing-for-some questions:-
The history of feminism.
Do female nudes celebrate women, or send a message that they are vulnerable/available?
How do we represent the past?
To what extent should public art, like statues, educate, shock or entertain us?

But as Elph indicates, a lot has been said about just one statue, which is why I'm grateful that Neapolitan noticed the other half of my thread title: Statues of Women, and showed us a couple of others :-

I like this one too, and as you say, there's a timeless quality about it.

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150 years after Mary W, in the 1920s, Margaret Sanger was promoting birth control as a road to freedom and equality for women in the USA and became the founder of the controvertial Planned Parenthood organisation - so controvertial that:
Here's a statue commemorating that brave moment, although it's a museum exhibit rather than a piece of sculpture (I think ) :-

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jwb

doesn't even look like a woman though broad looks sorta like a white Dennis Rodman