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December, 1979

Artistic License--SuspendedArtist Joy Poe ran afoul of feminists when her exhibit opened at Chicago's Artemisia Gallery, a women-artists' collective. Poe's paper creations depicting rape and other forms of social malevolence stirred no particular ill feeling among viewers. The trouble started when a man grabbed the artist and proceeded to forcibly rape her on the gallery floor. A startled crowd of men, women and children stood slack-jawed until they determined from the calm of the gallery operat...

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