Estéticas feministas contemporáneas (o de cómo hacer cosas con el cuerpo)

Abstract

The present article anaylizes the core of the different contemporary feminist aesthetics in the light of Judith Butler’s concepts of body and performativity (I). In order to illustrate the internal evolution of these aesthetics I adopt an eminently chronological criteria: first, I make a look to the discourse of identity of the 70’ elaborated by women artists as Judy Chicago or Miriam Shapiro (II); second, I tackle the discourse of difference of the 80’ through women so well known as Cindy Sherman or Barbara Kruger (III); and third, I undertake a short raid in the domains of the radical discourse of the 90’ represented by the diversal queer manifestations (IV). All this opens the possibility, in the frame of the new technological media, to think about the blurred frontiers between the real and the virtual body of women