ABSTRACT
A sequel to the pioneering volume, Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, published in 1982, The Expanding Discourse contains 29 essays on artists and issues from the Renaissance to the present, representing some of the best feminist art-historical writing of the past decade. Chronologically arranged, the essays demonstrate the abundance, diversity, and main conceptual trends in recent feminist scholarship.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|12 pages
The Virgin’s One Bare Breast
Nudity, Gender, and Religious Meaning in Tuscan Early Renaissance Culture
chapter 9|10 pages
The Muted Other
Gender and Morality in Augustan Rome and Eighteenth-Century Europe
chapter 11|20 pages
“Disagreeably Hidden”
Construction and Constriction of the Lesbian Body in Rosa Bonheur’s Horse Fair
chapter 12|24 pages
“L’art Féminin”
The Formation of a Critical Category in Late Nineteenth-Century France
chapter 13|14 pages
Morisot’s Wet Nurse
The Construction of Work and Leisure in Impressionist Painting
chapter 15|26 pages
Edgar Degas and French Feminism, ca. 1880
“The Young Spartans,” the Brothel Monotypes, and the Bathers Revisited
chapter 23|16 pages
Egalitarian Vision, Gendered Experience
Women Printmakers and the WPA/FAP Graphic Arts Project
chapter 27|8 pages
Race Riots. Cocktail Parties. Black Panthers. Moon Shots and Feminists
Faith Ringgold’s Observations on the 1960s in America
