Feminist Art Education: An Analysis of the Women's Art Movement as an Educational Force

Abstract

In the 70's, for the first time, women's art began to be accessible in quantity. This has had two effects: One is that women artists could begin to work knowingly in relation to the work of other women: the other is that the traditional question-are men's and women's art different?-could be discussed again, but with adequate samples of women's art for the first time. (Alloway, 1976, p. 66) Feminist art education is conceptually, as well as literally, a hybrid between feminism taken as an ideology, and the theory and practice of art education. Its current nature needs critical study. Art education refers both to the educating of artists and educating of people about art and its relationship to society. Feminism applied to art education can refer to the process either of educating an artist