Ma`rifat Farhangi Ejtemaei

With the claim of defending women's rights in western civilization and using its principles and foundations, feminism entered into socio-political thoughts trying to make women participate and play significant role in different domains of social life. Having reanalyzed the factors which have made women inferior, it struggles to remove them. With such an aim, it reviewed and analyzed the history of art and aesthetics. Feminists mainly focus on the analysis of cultural life with respect to sexual difference between male and female. They pose the main question: "Why do women have no status in arts?" They believe that history of art and aesthetics has never recognized women's art and emphasized on neglecting women's artistic creativity by promoting special thoughts and adopting particular policies. Instead, it has caused women's inferiority by identifying their body as the theme of artistic production. In order to confront male–oriented history of art, feminists have used different strategies to create artistic works and have prepared the ground for women's more presence in different artistic fields by criticizing traditional philosophy and history of art. However, since feministic art has neglected woman's real personality, has been unrealistic, and has gone to extremes in providing strategies, it has not only been of no help to reduce women's oppression but also has paved the way for other kinds of oppression.