Ghada Amer is renowned for her vibrant, embroidered "paintings," in which images of women or feminist themes are meticulously stitched into the canvas. The excess thread, left to hang from the contours of the figures like drips or splashes of paint, serves to abstract and obscure the representations. By employing embroidery—a traditionally feminine and domestic craft—Amer recontextualizes her subject matter, challenging the cultural objectification of women and positioning her work within a feminist discourse. This work contains the following statements:

A man would be strategic a woman manipulative
A man would be a leader a woman would be controlling
A man would be authoritative a woman would be annoying
A man would be called confident, but a woman would be called arrogant
A man would be uncompromising a woman would be a ball breaker
A man would be assertive a woman would be aggressive
The behavior is the same what is different is the body exhibiting that behavior