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Feminist Art!

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The "first wave" of feminism began in the mid-19th century with the women's suffrage movements and continued until women received the right to vote, in 1920. Organized feminist activism effectively ceased between 1920 and the late 1960s,.    Feminist art movement began producing work during the renaissance of the larger women's movement in the late 1960s, also referred to as the "second-wave" of feminism. Some women artists work have been posthumously identified as  proto-feminist .   For example,  Eva Hesse  and  Louise Bourgeois  created works that contained imagery dealing with the female body, personal experience, and ideas of domesticity, even if the artists did not explicitly identify with feminism. These subjects were later embraced by the Feminist art movement.  The Feminist artists of the "second-wave" expanded on the themes of the proto-feminist artists by linking their artwork explicitly to the fight for gender equality and inc