Female Sensibility (1973)

As two heavily madeup women take turns directing each other and submitting to each others kisses and caresses it becomes increasingly obvious that the camera is their main point of focus Read against feminist film theory of the male gaze the action becomes a highly charged statement of the sexual politics of viewing and roleplaying and as such is a crucial text in the development of early feminist video This video is Bengliss emphatic response to the notion of a distinctly feminine artistic sensibility and to the belief in a necessary lesbian phase in the womens movementideas that were often debated in the early 1970s Susan Krane Introduction Lynda Benglis Dual Natures Atlanta High Museum of Art 1991 httpwwwvdborgtitlesfemalesensibility