Table of Contents
Preface 7
Introduction: Art History and the Woman Artist 17
The Middle Ages 43
The Renaissance Ideal 66
The Other Renaissance 87
Domestic Genres and Women Painters in Northern Europe 114
Amateurs and Academics: A New Ideology of Femininity in France and England 139
Sex, Class, and Power in Victorian England 175
Toward Utopia: Moral Reform and American Art in the Nineteenth Century 205
Separate but Unequal: Woman's Sphere and the New Art 228
Modernism, Abstraction, and the New Woman, 1910-25 252
Modernist Representation: The Female Body 279
Gender, Race, and Modernism after the Second World War 316
Feminist Art in North America and Great Britain 355
New Directions: A Partial Overview 378
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart 423
A Place to Grow: Personal Visions, Global Concerns, 2000-06 467
Bibliography and Sources 496
List of Illustrations 516
Index 523