This book uses an art historical and feminist methodology to engage with Emma Hamilton, an eighteenth century celebrity who appeared in many works of art by important artists including Angelica Kauffmann, George Romney and Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun.
Through an examination of such diverse visual images as prints, drawings, panels, sculptures, minor arts, and frescoes, this book, a significant contr..
Through the contributors' engagement with gender as the conceptual locus of analysis in terms of femininity, masculinity, and the spaces in between, t..
Looks at the work of a diverse range of artists and explores the effect of feminist theory on art practice. The book provides a provocative and valuab..
This books tells the stories of Iphigeneia and Polyxena in Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art and literature. They are the two sacrificial virgins of the ..
In this crucial book, Emily L. Newman focuses on a number of key themes including obesity, anorexia, bulimia, dieting, self-harm, and female body imag..
The struggles and achievements of forty-six notable women artists of the early modern period, as documented by their contemporaries, are uniquely brou..
Kimberly Rhodes's interdisciplinary book is the first to explore fully the complicated representational history of Shakespeare's Ophelia during the Vi..
Applying a feminist and international approach to the interwar years (1918-1939), this collection explores women's art in a variety of mediums includi..
Providing a cross-cultural perspective on consumption, the volume builds upon and complicates the idea that consumption, as a form of meaning making, ..
Explored in this volume are women's material practices, which range from production within the fields of fine and decorative arts, including needlewor..