The given title is in fact, the title of a novel, Jerzy Kosinski's novel, The Painted Bird, that the Mary Daly, an American radical feminist, has borrowed it in order to explain her ideas in her book, GYN/ECOLOGY. According to the Daly's book, in the novel, there is a man who vent his sexual frustration upon birds by painting their feathers (Daly,M; 1987;P.209). Mary Daly tries to describe her idea in this manner: "The painted, cosmeticized artifacts (whether this is understood on the physical level or on the psychic level, or in both of these dimensions) are the creatures created by phallocracy, the artificial selves which prepossess all women, though in varying degrees. The massively widespread beauty advertising engages the women to become beautiful as they encourage. The beauty that is defined under patriarchy, trying to spread across the world. The fear of being ugly, the fear of not being attractive due to ageing, come from standard beauty by pervasive advertising. This photo either recalls the foot-binding, Chinese women who used to be forced to bind their foot because of the men's sexual desire, or any other parody of the struggle for beauty.
