The essay title is : a reflection on figurative nudes (usually used for art history class)

I am not a feminist. In fact I do not conform to any of the 'isms' that one so easily throw around these days. Yet when I see this piece of work I begin to wonder all over again why the body has become such and extensively important item of display and spectacle in art. If one were to reflect for just one moment on the historical precedent of the women's body as represented in …

…t to un gender the body once more, to understand its attempt at a dialogue with the mind rather than its screening of the minds emotions, and realize that it experiences and displays, conscious of its gender but also in a constant subversion of that gender so as to almost say that before I am a woman I am insert name and then re think it to re assign these classifications and constantly change them.