This journal theme issue focuses on Visual Arts and Gender Equity with particular emphasis on art education. Articles include: (1) "Gender Equity and Visual Arts Education" (Lee Emery); (2) "Deconstruction: A Methodology for Exploring Dominant Ideologies and Gendered Relations in the Visual Arts" (Annie Reid); (3) "Advocating a Gender Inclusive Curriculum in the Visual Arts: Politics, Pedagogy, Postmodernism" (Julie Rosewarne Foster); (4) "Western Philosophy and Women Artists: Inferior, Subordinate, Private, and Other" (Penelope Collet); (5) "Gender and the Practice of Textiles" (Kay Lawrence); (6) "Gender Differences in Children's Drawings" (Cathy Speck); and (7) "Considering Gender Equity Policy and Recent Debates in Relation to Arts Education" (Sue Davis). (MM)