Marianne Wex

Marianne Wex (13 July 1937 in Hamburg – 13 October 2020[2] in Schleswig-Holstein) was a German feminist photographer, author and self-healer.

Her research culminated in her 1977 artwork: ‘Weibliche’ und ‘männliche’ Körpersprache als Folge patriarchalischer Machtverhältnisse (Let's Take Back Our Space: 'Female' and 'Male' Body Language as a Result of Patriarchal Structures).

Wex's own photographs were complemented with images taken from mass media (advertisements, films, tabloids magazines and newspapers).

The resulting publication about the artwork has been translated into English and French and the project is still used as an important example in women's and gender studies.

In the 1980s, after her diagnosis,[3] Wex left Germany, turning away from art to travel through New Zealand, India, Japan and Canada, where she became interested in self-healing.