Lucy R. Lippard Quote

I must admit to a personal lack of sympathy with women who have themselves photographed in black stockings, garter belts and boots, with bare breasts, bananas, and coy, come-hither glances.... A woman using her own face and body has a right to do what she will with them, but it is a subtle abyss that separates men's use of women for sexual titillation from women's use of women to expose that insult.


From the center: feminist essays on women's art (ed. Plume, 1976)


I must admit to a personal lack of sympathy with women who have themselves photographed in black stockings, garter belts and boots, with bare...

I must admit to a personal lack of sympathy with women who have themselves photographed in black stockings, garter belts and boots, with bare...

I must admit to a personal lack of sympathy with women who have themselves photographed in black stockings, garter belts and boots, with bare...

I must admit to a personal lack of sympathy with women who have themselves photographed in black stockings, garter belts and boots, with bare...