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Blue Sky. My guest today is Lauren Elkin, author of a new book called Art Monsters, unruly bodies in feminist art.

So Wolf says, you know, I found that I haven't been able to tell the truth of my experiences as a body, but perhaps in 50 years some woman will be able to.

And if you look forward 50 years from 1931 when she's writing this,

you get to 1981 and I think you can actually, you know,

look a little bit earlier and look at the kind of convulsions of the 1960s, that, you know,

Vietnam protests, the civil rights marches, the kind of way that, you know, once again,

Western culture was trying to overthrow a feeling that, you know, the world that they'd inherited

was not righteous and, you know and was just leading to a destructive

war all over again. So it's out of that kind of 60s moment that you get, you know, the rise

of feminism, obviously, as we know it today, our second wave feminism, but also these feminist

artists who, you know, like the birth control pill has been legalized.

They're fighting for, you know, the legalization of abortion.

There's a sense that a woman's body is going to be hers to do with as she pleases now

in a way that it's never been before, you know, in all of recorded history.

All right, that was Lauren Elkin, author of the new book Art Monsters, Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art,

Available now from Ferrar, Strauss, and Giroux.

Art Monsters is an erudite and insightful exploration of the ways in which feminist artists have done their work,

reacting against the patriarchy and redefining their own aesthetic aims.

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