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I have recently become interested in the concept of gender specific art and one of the more pressing questions seems to be whether social consciousness has been driving visual art towards a feminizing approach on the one hand or towards a feminist approach on the other. For example, one can easily see the influence of the feminizing in the WACK movement:
Contrast that with the Gorilla Girls (and Guerilla Girls) that began as visual art and became political art:
Someone like Harmony Hammond, of course, represents the reflexive, where her life is a political statement, but her art is, arguably, not:
Anyone else into this subject?