ABSTRACT
A radical feminist art includes an understanding of how women are constituted through social practices in culture. Once understood how women are consumed in this society it would be possible to create an aesthetics designed to subvert the consumption of women, thus avoiding the pitfalls of a politically progressive art work which depicts women in the same forms as the dominant culture. To better understand the point at which theory and art intersect it might be useful to consider women's cultural production in four categories. One type of women's art can be seen as the glorification of an essential female art power. The second strategy or type of feminist artistic practice views women's art as a form of subcultural resistance. Third category of women's art derives as well from this aspect of isolationism. The final type of artistic practice situates women at a crucial place within patriarchy which enables them to play on the contradictions that inform patriarchy itself.
