Table of Contents

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 Feminity in France and England; 6. Sex, Class and Power in Victorian England; 7. Toward Utopia: Moral Reform and American Art in the Nineteenth 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 at San Francisco State University. Among her other books are Significant Others and Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, both published by Thames & Hudson.