What is feminist art?
Chicago explained, “Feminism is a philosophy, and feminist art manifests that philosophical point of view, but feminism is an embracing, big philosophy that has its roots back several hundred years to Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman [1792]. Basically feminism—or feminisms, as they have developed and expanded—looks at the world first through the lens of gender and with the goal of disrupting the hierarchical structure on the planet that privileges one experience over another, one human being over another, one species over another, in order to bring about greater equity and justice on the planet. So if you start with the grounding in feminism—or feminisms, because they manifest in many different ways—and then you filter that through the various cultural, ethnic, religious, sexual orientations—in other words, all the multiplicity of individualities as people experience the world—then you get a multiplicity of feminist arts.” There was some discussion of audience
