 Critical consideration of norms of female beauty and the artistic depiction of women influences the ways that feminist artists employ their own bodies in creating art (Brand 2000, 2013; Steiner 2001; Banes 1998). The work of artists across the globe utilizes bodies in different cultural and political contexts, dramatizing the recognition prevalent in contemporary feminist theory that there is no such thing as the female body, only bodies marked by the differences of their historical situation, their geographical location, their social position, their race (Hobson 2005; Tate 2009; Roelofs et al 2009; Taylor 2016). A wide spectrum of identities and desires are explored in text, image, and performance, including sexual morphology—transgender, female, male, intersex. Revaluation of bodies with abilities and disabilities represents yet another way in which aesthetic investigations have political impact (Silvers 2000; Millett-Gallant 2010; Siebers 2010). The most dramatic uses of artists’ bodies occur with the relatively new genre of performance art, in which feminists have been pioneers.