Concept

Feminist aesthetics

Overview

Feminist aesthetics first emerged in the 1970s and refers not to a particular aesthetic or style but to perspectives that question assumptions in art and aesthetics concerning gender-role stereotypes, or gender. Feminist aesthetics has a relationship to philosophy.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Related ideas

• Feminism
• Immanuel Kant
• Aesthetics
• Beauty
• Sublime (philosophy)
• David Hume

Place in the tradition

Part of Aesthetics.

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