Marxist theory, feminism(s) and women's history; women and the bourgeois revolution of 1789 - artists, mothers and markers of (art) history; gender and class in early modernist painting - a reassessment; women, class and photography - the Paris commune of 1871; Russia and the Soviet Union ca.1880-ca.1940 - "patriarchal" culture or "totalitarian androgeny"?; women and Nazi art - Nazi women and art; the postmodern, gender and race.
Also available in hardback, 9780854969609 GBP50.00 (April, 1995)
Gen Doy De Montfort University
'Doy bravelly challenges the orthodoxy that feminist theory has a monopoly on explanation. Her contention is that feminist art historians have virtually ignored the important contributions of Marx and Engels to understanding women's oppression and to women's emancipation, particularly Engels' book Origins of the Family (1884). [...] Doy provides an incisive and thoughtful account of class versus gender, economic base versus cultural superstructure debates. [...] Art history students weaned on the new art history will find Doy's revisionist, questioning book worth reading because it will cause them to think again.' Art monthly "(Doy's) text is useful ... for those who want an introduction to critical debates in art history, for she covers an extremely wide range of periods and debates, well supported by a selection of fifty-four illustrative plates" Women: A Critical Review
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