Communicating Art-work: Queering the Construction of Feminine Gender Identities

This analysis seeks to explore how art can be viewed as a rhetorical strategy to queer normative constructions of feminine gender. Through an exploration of the photographic work of Korean-born, New York-based artist Nikki S. Lee, the author discusses how a radical critique, or queering, of the traditional gender construction of “women” is accomplished by staging rhetorical situations that aggressively present conflicting, questioning, multifaceted alternative strategies for performing feminine gender.