Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction: Art History and the Woman Artist; 1. The Middle Ages; 2. The Renaissance Ideal; 3. The Other Renaissance; 4. Domestic Genres and Women Painters in Northern Europe; 5. Amateurs and Academics: A New Ideology of Femininity in France and England; 6. Sex, Class, and Power in Victorian England; 7. Toward Utopia: Moral Reform and American Art in the 19th Century; 8. Separate but Unequal: Woman's Sphere and the New Art; 9. Modernism, Abstraction, and the New Woman, 1910-25; 10. Modernist Representation: The Female Body; 11. Gender, Race, and Modernism after the Second World War; 12. Feminist Art in North America and Great Britain; 13. New Directions: A Partial Overview; 14. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

About the Author

Whitney Chadwick is Professor of Art History at San Frandisco State University. Among her previous books are Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, Significant Others and Amazons in the Drawing Room: The Art of Romaine Brooks.