This thesis explores the body as a central medium in feminist performance art of the 1970s. It analyzes three selected performances: Interior Scroll by Carolee Schneemann, A Portfolio of Models by Martha Wilson and Super-T-Art by Hannah Wilke. These artists used their own bodies to challenge traditional representations of femininity and employed them as tools of political articulation, subversion, and the redefinition of subjectivity. The research is based on the analysis of artworks and the interpretation of selected theoretical frameworks, highlighting three interrelated thematic focuses: the body as a political medium, the deconstruction of femininity and redefinition of female subjectivity as well as sexuality as an emancipatory strategy. The thesis wants to demonstrate that in these works, the body is not a represented object but an active subject of meaning and resistance.
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