ABSTRACT
This chapter describes an apparent crossing of the feminist critique of patriarchy and the postmodernist critique of representation. It explores the implications of that intersection. The chapter discusses the treacherous course between postmodernism and feminism, it is in order to introduce the issue of sexual difference into the modernism/postmodernism debate—a debate which has until now been scandalously in-different. If one of the most salient aspects of postmodern culture is the presence of an insistent feminist voice, theories of postmodernism have tended either to neglect or to repress that voice. The feminist voice is usually regarded as one among many, its insistence on difference as testimony to the pluralism of the times. There has emerged a visual arts practice informed by feminist theory and addressed, more or less explicitly, to the issue of representation and sexuality—both masculine and feminine.
