Create a speech discussing the cultural artifact: The Venus Figurines.
Provide an analysis of the cultural artifact using public identity as a critical lens. Your goal in this speech is to explain to your audience the basis for your critical judgment about the artifact. The body of the speech should back up your claim about the persuasiveness of the artifact. Divided into 3 points:
Point 1: Context. Describe the artifact, how it came into being historically and/or culturally. Some may find it easy to fit this in the intro for well known objects, but others may need to spend a main point on it.
Point 2: Answer the question one of the following questions (How does the artifact create/reinforce/undermine a community’s beliefs/understanding of gender roles, identity, or sexual orientation?) or (How does the artifact create/reinforce/undermine a community’s social, economic, &/or power structures?)
Point 3: Evaluate. What were the consequences or (potential) impact of the object? Were the purposes of the object fulfilled or contradicted by its persuasive stance? Were the principles behind it valid or good?