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A reappraisal of the position and work of women artists from the Middle Ages to the present. It examines the way in which women's work has been perceived in the history of Western art - often in direct reference to gender - and re-examines the works themselves.

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

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Whitney Chadwick is Professor of Art at San Francisco State University. She has lectured and published widely in the areas of surrealism, feminism, and contemporary art. She lives in San Francisco, California.