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The regular use of her own nude body has led some to describe Emi Anrakuji’s photography as erotic, despite her own insistence to the contrary. Such interpretations demonstrate a reductive tendency to immediately position the nude female form as sex object and “other,” reflecting internalized androcentric biases as well as naturalized gender binary categories and identities associated with them. Furthermore, there is a tendency to simplistically foreground issues of sexuality and gender in art by women. These issues are further compounded by the lack of representation of women …