Pi Benio, Kathy Constantinides, Connie Samaras, and Marilyn Zimmerman
Feminists Understanding Carnal Knowledge
Curated by Kathy Constantinides
October 3–November 1, 1987

This show consisted of the work of five feminist artists from Michigan. The work, some controversial, expressed views of how women are percieved in our society. The show included: Pi Benio, Kathy Constantinides, Connie Samaras, Marilyn Zimmerman. Feminists Understanding Carnal Knowledge examines the issue of desire and women’s sexuality from a perspective that critiques the cultural construction of gender, and addresses the issues of sexual and reproductive rights, language as a sexual determinant, pornography (desire and censorship); sexual harassment; sexual deviancy.

“One is not born a woman; one becomes a woman.” – Simone de Beauvoir