b'T3 Journal - Student Writing in Drama, University of Exeter 2019-20This suggests that the officer, although on duty and surelyclever, self-sacrificing use of bodies, specifically female not sexualising the bodies of the women hes trying tobodies, that can operate as a tool for transgression and restrain, ironically could not avoid the fact that touchingdissent in activist practice; taking the way womens bodies a womans breast, even accidentally, was something heare treated and oppressed within this patriarchal society still viewed as inappropriate enough to stop restrainingand using that to their advantage, instead of letting it beat them. This could be due to the fact that he sees the breaststhem. Women and their bodies are made to feel weak, as something only sexual and was worried that touchingvulnerable and in danger, yet in spite of this they have an them would appear inappropriate and unprofessional. Theinsistent refusal to disappear (Gale 2015: 315), and this question arises as to whether he would have stepped backrefusal is not a tactic of the weak (Grant 2019: 4), but of if his body had come into contact with a male protestorsthe mentally and physically resilient.bare chest. This demonstrates how women can use their bodies in protest effectively by taking advantage of the way they have been objectified by the patriarchy in society, and throwing that back in the patriarchys faces, cleverly,Bryan-Wilson, J. (2003). Remembering Yoko Onos Cut Piece, Oxford Art as Gale quotes from Rebecca Schneider, who is herselfJournal, pp.101123.quoting Audre Lorde [wielding] the masters tools againstChevrette, R & Hess, A. (2019). The FEMEN body can do everything: the masters house (Gale 2015: 315). Generating the agentic bodies of social movement through internal and external rhetorics, Communication Monographs, 86:4, pp.416-437.However, it needs to be noted that there are limitationsCrow, T. (1996) The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era to this method of feminist protest; although FEMENof Dissent, Abrams: New York, p133.and Ono use their breasts as a symbol of how the femaleDiRuggiero, M. (2017). Yoko Onos Cut Piece, [online] Bates.edu. body is objectified by the patriarchy, this ignores the factAvailable at: https://www.bates.edu/museum/2017/12/06/yoko-onos-that not all those who identify as women have breasts andcut-piece/ [Accessed 8 Jan. 2020].not all those who have breasts identify as women. Thus,Evans, K. (2003) Its Got to Be Silver and Pink: on the road with Tactical without this acknowledgment, these protests run theFrivolity in We Are everywhere: the irresistible rise of global anticapitalism edited risk of excluding transgender women from the feministby Notes from Nowhere, London, pp.290-295.conversation, which is a conversation all women shouldGale, M. B. (2015). Resolute Presence, Fugitive Moments, and the Body in be included in. Womens Protest Performance, Routledge, p314-315.Grant, K. (2019). Last Weapons: Hunger Strikes and Fasts in the British Yet overall, as I quoted by Gale earlier, perhaps I agreeEmpire, 18901948. Oakland, California: University of California Press, that the female body cannot be read outside of the framepp.1-67.of patriarchalculture (Gale 2015: 315), however I do not believe that this should not be used and highlighted in activism. In fact, I believe this to be the crux of both the Suffragettes and FEMENs activist tactics, as well as even Yoko Ono in her performance art: they themselves are aware that they can only be viewed as objects, or as weak and vulnerable, and through that knowledge they create this martyrdom (Grant 2019: 55). They invite their audiences, and the authorities, to view them in such a way, potentially endangering themselves, which forces that second look [disrupting]the everyday (Gale 2015: 315), subverting those patriarchal expectations. It not only disrupts how women are perceived, but exposes how the patriarchal system treats them - Thomas Crow states that Onos work acutely pinpoints the political question of womens physical vulnerability (Crow 1996: 133)Onos, by putting herself in an incredibly vulnerable scenario, exposed the way the patriarchy make women feel vulnerable by harassing and endangering them. It is this 24'