Liberal Feminism, from Law to Art: The Impact of Feminist Jurisprudence on Feminist Aesthetics

@article{Musgrave2003LiberalFF,
  title={Liberal Feminism, from Law to Art: The Impact of Feminist Jurisprudence on Feminist Aesthetics},
  author={L. Ryan Musgrave},
  journal={Hypatia},
  year={2003},
  volume={18},
  pages={214 - 235}
}
This essay explores how early approaches in feminist aesthetics drew on concepts honed in the field of feminist legal theory, especially conceptions of oppression and equality. I argue that by importing these feminist legal concepts, many early feminist accounts of how art is political depended largely on a distinctly liberal version of politics. I offer a critique of liberal feminist aesthetics, indicating ways recent work in the field also turns toward critical feminist aesthetics as an… 
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