Three feminist perspectives on visual media: Influences of the second wave feminist movement on women's art education and their lives as artists.

摘要

During the 1960s and 1970s, feminists catapulted the idea of women into the media and public consciousness. The message of second wave feminism spread widely and inspired women across the United States in academia as women's liberation groups fought for equal rights resulting in a society driven by a constant state of flux. Narrative inquiry, a distinctive way of thinking and understanding that emphasizes the human enterprise and traces the roots of narrative from life stories, was used in this research to address how visual media has influenced women's issues. Female artists who were university educated from 1966 to 1979 conveyed their stories utilizing respective works of art, shared perspectives in interview, and examined media's impact on contemporary issues in alignment with Deweyan pragmatics and the belief experience and thought results from ongoing and continuous interaction with all aspects of the environment.;Using information extrapolated from a contextual questionnaire and a triangulation of data inclusive of one-to-one interviews, works of visual art, and respective journals, participants conveyed both personal and social information. Findings support study participants were attuned to the power of visual media and responded to second wave feminism through photography and various media in reflecting a dialogue between the female artist and her culture in the use of images, figures, and memories that spoke to the contemporary culture. This investigation further revealed study participants entered U.S. colleges and universities of their choice, exercised their freedoms in seeking individualism, created an intimate connection between the self and creativity, and further defined personal identity through transformation in a plurality of imagery.