I’m not a native English speaker, so forgive my ignorance, but isn’t “women” a noun, not an adjective? Why not just say “female artists” or “female writers”?
As a side note, I’ve also literally never seen anyone say “men artists” or “men writers”. What gives?
woman/women/men/man are both adjectives and nouns. english is fucked because it’s a bunch of different grammars that all jumped another language in alley and then made a new language by wearing that language as a skinsuit, and then conquered most of the world.
we don’t refer to “men artists” or “men writers” because the hegemonic standard within our society is the masculine perspective. so we sometimes have to draw attention to “this artist is showing you a woman’s perspective” to draw attention to that the arts and culture that you see by default show an incomplete view of the world. i look forward to the day the feminine perspective is common enough that we either just call everyone artists or have to start differentiating perspectives to ensure we fully understand the ramifications of what we’re seeing