Bodies to Come [electronic resource].

Feminist Art Coalition 2020

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Feminism today often feels bipolar. Focusing only on recent actions and reactions in the United States, it seems clear that, on the one hand, activist feminist movements such as MeToo and Time’s Up have helped spark a revolution in awareness about sexual harassment, sexual assault, and the larger forces of misogyny that have been long central to the consolidation of white patriarchal power. During Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony about his alleged sexual assault of her in high school did not cancel his confirmation, but her testimony, broadcast live and in full, helped ignite more probing analyses of the ways in which (mainly white) men regulate and fail to regulate themselves with women in everyday life. Coming after Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (apparent) loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election and Chanel Miller’s important publication of her “victim impact statement” in the Brock Turner rape trial, Blasey Ford’s testimony tapped dormant rage about the ways in which (mainly white) men often feel entitled to the bodies of women. While some of this entitlement has been scrutinized in recent years, its connection to the aggressive rollback of women’s reproductive rights has received little attention. The same logic that leads men to think they can impose their sexual desires on women leads them to decide when and how women can reproduce. Finally, it should not be forgotten that even while MeToo and Time’s Up and other feminist activist groups have been effective in stopping some appalling behavior, the United States nonetheless elected a president who boasted to Billy Bush, on tape, that he “can do anything” he’d like with women’s bodies…
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Feminism and art
Feminist Theory
Racism
Sculpture
Violence

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Peggy Phelan