UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum of Art.(Brief Article)

Feminist theory has deeply informed all of my work, although it has become more subterranean a presence in my writing over the last three years. My various professional and personal experiences in organizing the exhibition Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in Feminist Art History for the UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum of Art and in editing its accompanying catalogue changed my relationship to feminism substantially. Initially, and somewhat naively, I had viewed my position in a positive light as a respectful, but critical, follower of the great 1970s and 1980s writers and artists in the feminist art movement--including (among many others) Judy Chicago, Mary Kelly, Barbara Kruger, Lucy Lippard, Ana Mendieta, Lorraine O'Grady, Adrian Piper, Griselda Pollock, Moira Roth, Carolee Schneemann, Mira Schor, Lisa Tickner, Faith Wilding, and Janet Wolff.

The hostility I experienced as I attempted to mount this …