The Female Gaze
The practitioners featured here work in and around issues that define and affect what it means to be a woman. In this journey, learn about Suzanne Lacy's work on social practice and community interaction as "feminist to the core" then continue to Ishiuchi Miyako’s photographic forays into areas of Yokosuka deemed unsafe for women; to Helène Aylon’s “midwifing” and “birthing” of painted pieces; to Tomoko Sawada’s photo investigations of Japanese womanhood and girls’ schools; and Judy Chicago’s dangerous female content that revolutionized the art world in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Judy Chicago: Is there a "Female Aesthetic"?

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Judy Chicago: It’s a man’s world

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Judy Chicago: The Dinner Party

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Gender roles according to Louise Bourgeois

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Daniela Rossell questions “female territories”

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Eva Hesse and gender

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Ishiuchi Miyako’s early life near Yokosuka’s U.S. military base

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Tomoko Sawada’s self-portraits create familiar characters

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Helène Aylon “midwifes” an image

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Making It Live: Dena Beard and Constance M. Lewallen in Conversation

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Frida Kahlo: Feminist and Chicana icon

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Lynn Hershman Leeson’s seductive chat bot

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Feminist Publishing

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A Conversation with Suzanne Lacy and the Curators Behind Her Retrospective

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Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here

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Crying on Camera: “fourth-wave feminism” and the threat of commodification