March 1, 2014
Throughout the long history of art, fashion, and popular culture, most representations of women depict the female form as an object of desire-whether the subject is an eroticized odalisque in a nineteenth-century painting or a hyper-sexualized model, actress, or singer on a twenty-first-century magazine or album cover. Fortunately, a few superheroes of the art world-writers, performers, illustrators, painters-have used the very platform of art to expose the sexism and inequality often found lurking beneath its gilded surface.
