Table of Contents

* Introduction: The Expanding Discourse Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard. * The Virgins One Bare Breast: Nudity, Gender, and Religious Meaning in Tuscan Early Renaissance Culture Margaret R. Miles. * Women in Frames: The Gaze, the Eye, the Profile in Renaissance Portraiture Patricia Simons. * Leonardo da Vinci: Female Portraits, Female Nature M. D. Garrard. * The Taming of the Blue: Writing Out Color in Italian Renaissance Theory Patricia L. Reilly. * Botticellis Primavera: A Lesson for the Bride * Lilian Zirpolo. * Titians Sacred and Profane Love and Marriage Rona Goffen. * The Loggia dei Lanzi: A Showcase of Female Subjugation Yael Even. * The Erotics of Absolutism: Rubens and the Mystification of Sexual Violence Margaret D. Carroll. * The Muted Other: Gender and Morality in Augustan Rome and Eighteenth-Century Europe Natalie Boymel Kampen. * Secluded Vision: Images of Feminine Experience in Nineteenth-Century Europe Anne Higonnet. * Disagreeably Hidden: Construction and Constriction of the Lesbian Body in Rosa Bonheurs Horse Fair James M. Saslow. * LArt Fminin: The Formation of a Critical Category in Late Nineteenth-Century France Tamar Garb. * Morisots Wet Nurse: The Construction of Work and Leisure in Impressionist Painting Linda Nochlin. * Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity Griselda Pollock. * Edgar Degas and French Feminism, ca1880: The Young Spartans, the Brothel Monotypes, and the Bathers Revisited N. Broude. * Renoir and the Natural Woman T. Garb. * Going Native: Paul Gauguin and the Invention of Primitivist Modernism * Abigail Solomon-Godeau. * Gauguins Tahitian Body Peter Brooks. * The MoMAs Hot Mamas Carol Duncan. * Constructing Myths and Ideologies in Matisses Odalisques Marilynn Lincoln Board. * Ladies Shot and Painted: Female Embodiment in Surrealist Art Mary Ann Caws. * Culture, Politics, and Identity in the Paintings of Frida Kahlo Jaine Helland. * Egalitarian Vision, Gendered Experience: Women Printmakers and the WPA/FAP Graphic Arts Project Helen Langa. * Lee Krasner as LK Anne M. Wagner. * Georgia OKeeffe and Feminism: A Problem of Position Barbara Buhler Lynes. * Judy Chicagos Dinner Party: A Personal Vision of Womens History Josephine Withers. * Race RiotsCocktail PartiesBlack PanthersMoon Shots and Feminists: Faith Ringgolds Observations of the 1960s in America Lowery S. Sims. * Afrofemcentrism and Its Fruition in the Art of Elizabeth Catlett and Faith Ringgold Freida High W. Tesfagiorgis. * The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism Craig Owens.

About the Author

Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard are professors of art history at the American University in Washington, D.C., and are leading scholars in the field of feminist art history. Broude is the author of The Macchiaioli: Italian Painters of the Nineteenth Century (1987), Impressionism, A Feminist Reading: The Gendering of Art, Science, and Nature in the Nineteenth Century (1991), and Georges Seurat (1992). Garrard has written articles and reviews on feminism and art history, Jacopo Sansovino, Michelangelo and Raphael, and Renaissance sculpture. She is the author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art (1989) and, with Broude, the coeditor of Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany (1982). Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard are professors of art history at the American University in Washington, D.C., and are leading scholars in the field of feminist art history. Broude is the author of The Macchiaioli: Italian Painters of the Nineteenth Century (1987), Impressionism, A Feminist Reading: The Gendering of Art, Science, and Nature in the Nineteenth Century (1991), and Georges Seurat (1992). Garrard has written articles and reviews on feminism and art history, Jacopo Sansovino, Michelangelo and Raphael, and Renaissance sculpture. She is the author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art (1989) and, with Broude, the coeditor of Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany (1982).