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Cecily Brown And Maureen Gallace: Teaching Covert Feminism In Public School, Danielle Salyers
Cecily Brown And Maureen Gallace: Teaching Covert Feminism In Public School, Danielle Salyers
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Feminist art consisting of explicit, provocative, and politically charged imagery is common in the university setting and the wider art world. Although this freedom from inhibition certainly functions as a valuable source of inspiration for those fortunate enough to participate in the institution of higher education, content of this nature potentially works against feminism’s goals by excluding the youngest audience at the moment they are forming ideas about gender relations; students at the K-12 level. As a public-school art educator, I am faced with strict censorship policies that make it difficult to include students in the ongoing feminist conversation by …