Art history and the woman artist -- The Middle Ages -- The Renaissance ideal -- The other renaissance -- Domestic genres and women painters in northern Europe -- Amateurs and academics: a new ideology of femininity in France and England -- Sex, class, and power in Victorian England -- Toward Utopia: moral reform and American art in the nineteenth century -- Separate by unequal: woman's sphere and the new art -- Modernism, abstraction, and the new woman, 1910-25 -- Modernist representation: the female body -- Gender, race, and modernism after the Second World War -- Feminist art in North America and Great Britain -- New directions: a partial overview.
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