Editing Young British Artists (section)

=== Feminism within the YBAs ===
Female artists were distinctly a minority amongst the male dominated environment of the Young British Artists. Individuals such as [[Sarah Lucas]], [[Jenny Saville]] and [[Rachel Whiteread]] have varied levels of neglect within their media portrayals, as well as incomparable in notoriety to male YBA peers such as Hirst.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title = Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas & Rachael Whiteread: Did feminism feature as a part of Young British Art?|url = https://chalkjournal.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/emin-lucas-whiteread/|website = Chalk| date=19 April 2012 |access-date = 7 December 2015}}</ref>

The University of Sussex's Art Society Journal describes how feminists in the 1980s influenced the female members of the Young British Artists' artwork through the strategy of subverting feminine stereotypes.<ref name=":0"/> Other discourse around female YBA work include a discussion of [[Rachel Whiteread]]'s sculpture practice. Whiteread has been said to disrupt the 'clear' concept of women making 'female work'.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url = http://danploy.com/Assets/Art_History_photos/A841_Project.pdf|title = Rachel Whiteread's Nine Tables: Formalist Object, Feminist Critique or Something In-Between?|date = 2010|access-date = 7 December 2015|website = Dan|publisher = Danploy|last = Ogilvie|first = Daniel|archive-date = 17 August 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160817134506/http://danploy.com/Assets/Art_History_photos/A841_Project.pdf|url-status = dead}}</ref> Her work ''Nine Tables'' attempts to exist within a third space, where the forms can't be physically gendered, but still viewed as a feminine objects.<ref name=":1" /> Daniel Ogilivie has expressed how [[Judith Butler]]'s concept of which "…the mere act of 'doing', of casting the object, that expresses the gender and it is not any anthropomorphic association in the artwork itself," creates the feminine within Whiteread's work.<ref name=":1" />

With the prevalence of feminist ideology in society and the contemporary art, critics have argued that female artists like [[Jenny Saville]] in the 1990s investigated the contrived idea of 'feminity' made by the Patriarchal Structure.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Jenny Saville: The Body Recovered {{!}} CUJAH|url = http://cujah.org/past-volumes/volume-vi/essay-13-volume-6/|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130623020951/http://cujah.org/past-volumes/volume-vi/essay-13-volume-6/|url-status = dead|archive-date = 23 June 2013|website = cujah.org|access-date = 7 December 2015}}</ref> While attending art school in Cincinnati, Saville's feminist passion was conceived through a realisation of gender within art history. In her own words, she discovered that, "I'd always wondered why there had been no women artists in history. I found there had been – but not reported. I realized I'd been affected by male ideas, going through a male-dominated art college".<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title = Interview: This is Jenny, and this is her Plan: Men paint female|url = https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/interview-this-is-jenny-and-this-is-her-plan-men-paint-female-beauty-in-stereotypes-jenny-saville-1426296.html|website = The Independent| date=March 1994 |access-date = 11 December 2015|language = en-GB}}</ref> Now consciously aware of institutional patriarchy, Saville began to paint female nudes that were not idealised. Rather than continue the recognised historical male view of female bodies, Saville created depictions of natural women with genuine flaws. Pubic hair trailing up stomachs and around thighs, discoloured skin and areas of excess flesh.<ref name=":2" /> Deconstructing the feminine body, Saville has stated that, "I'm not trying to teach, just make people discuss, look at how women have been made by man. What is beauty? Beauty is usually the male image of the female body. My women are beautiful in their individuality."<ref>{{Cite web|title = Interview: This is Jenny, and this is her Plan: Men paint female|url = https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/interview-this-is-jenny-and-this-is-her-plan-men-paint-female-beauty-in-stereotypes-jenny-saville-1426296.html|website = The Independent| date=March 1994 |access-date = 7 December 2015|language = en-GB}}</ref>