“From the early 1970s, feminist artists understood their task to be, in the words of Lisa Tickner, ‘the de-colonizing of the female body,’ reclaiming it from masculine objectification.” (22). This quote to me means that women finally want to define themselves and objectified. They are tired of being thought of as housewives and only accepted in nurturing careers. I think women are finally claiming a spot and announcing not what they “should” be but rather what they really are. A lot of the art during this period shows women in charge which was something unheard of at the time. This relates to African Americans because, society has had a certain view of the group for so long, it begins to affect our psych and the minority groups as well. A lot of times women think they have to look a certain way because society places that burden on them. It wasn’t until the 1970s Feminist Art movement, when feminism and art would join, making the slogan “the personal is political.”(p.12) “Until 1970 there had not yet existed a self conscious and universalizing female voice in are self conscious in articulating female experience from an informed social and political position, and in universalizing in defining ones experience as applicable to the experience of other women” (12). Art at this time was an escape for women as well as a way to cause awareness to issues that every woman thinks about. Many women realized that a lot of the issues they faced were concerns of other women worldwide as well. Faith Ringold is an artist who addresses the political and personal by stereotypes she has faced being an African American woman.