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Leslie Sheryll and Garlington & Bertotti employ the woman as identifier to comment on society and in so doing expose that when it comes to the woman, she really has not shed the constraints imposed in the Victorian Era. All the artists create scenarios in their works that depict women homeless, women with danger lurking in the background, or having to resort to natural remedies just to have control over their bodies. Very similar to Victorian ideas of the hysterical woman, one sees that society either ignores her voice, or alienates her to such a degree that she is either bound forever …