18 Striking Photos that Challenge the Idea of Femininity

"I Heart Girl" is a project by Jessica Yatrofsky that challenges the way mass media presents femininity. Each subject has "varying degrees of 'masculine' and 'feminine' traits." Yatrofsky goes beyond clichés and socially constructed ideas about gender. In I Heart Girl, "hyper-sexualized extremes of female archetypes do not exist, instead we are given a new picture of what contemporary female culture looks like." 

Check out our interview with the photographer in the following slides: