Readings for March 6

Whitney Chadwick, “Modernism, Abstraction, and the New Woman, 1910-25,” Chapter 9, Women, Art, and Society, 4th ed. (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2007), pp. 252-278.

Sigmund Freud, "Case 5: Elisabeth Von R." in Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud, Studies on Hysteria, trans. James Strachey (New York: Basic Books, nd), pp. 135-181.

Carol Duncan, “Virility and Domination in Early Twentieth-Century Vanguard Painting,” in Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, eds. Norma Broude and Mary Garrard (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1982), pp. 292-313.

Carol Duncan, “The MoMA’s Hot Mamas,” in The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, eds. Norma Broude and Mary Garrard (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992), pp. 346-357.

Anna C. Chave, “New Encounters with Les Demoiselles D’Avignon: Gender, Race, and the Origins of Cubism,” in Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History After Postmodernism, eds. Norma Broude and Mary Garrard (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), pp. 300-323.

Responses for February 27

Whitney Chadwick, “Separate but Unequal: Woman’s Sphere and the New Art,” Chapter 8, Women, Art, and Society, 4th ed. (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2007), pp. 228-251.

Griselda Pollock, “Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity,” in The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, eds. Norma Broude and Mary Garrard (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992), pp. 244-267.

Norma Broude, “The Gendering of Impressionism,” in Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History After Postmodernism, eds. Norma Broude and Mary Garrard (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), pp. 2216-233.

Norma Broude, “Degas’s ‘Misogyny,’” in Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, eds. Norma Broude and Mary Garrard (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1982), pp. 246-269.

Ruth E. Iskin, “Selling, Seduction, and Soliciting the Eye: Manet’s Bar at the Folies-Bergère,” in Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History After Postmodernism, eds. Norma Broude and Mary Garrard (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), pp. 234-257.

Responses for February 20

What is a "true woman"? How does the idea/ideal of the "true woman" relate to questions of power, alterity, and normativity?


Whitney Chadwick, “Sex, Class, and Power in Victorian England,” Chapter 6, Women, Art, and Society, 4th ed. (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2007), pp. 175-204.

Isabella Beeton, Preface and Chapter 1, Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861).

Barbara Welter, “The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860,” American Quarterly 18, No. 2, Part 1 (Summer 1966): 151-174.

Linda Nochlin, “ Lost and Found: Once More the Fallen Woman,” in Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, eds. Norma Broude and Mary Garrard (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1982), pp. 221-245.

Anne Higonnet, “Secluded Vision: Images of Feminine Experience in Nineteenth-Century Europe,” in The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, eds. Norma Broude and Mary Garrard (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992), pp. 170-185.

Tamar Garb, “L’Art Féminin: The Formation of a Critical Category in Late Nineteenth-Century France,” in The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, eds. Norma Broude and Mary Garrard (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992), pp. 206-229.

Week of February 13

Power? Powerlessness? The "weaker" sex? Any thoughts on women, art, and power are welcome this week.

Whitney Chadwick, “Amateurs and Academics: A New Ideology of Femininity in France and England,” Chapter 5, Women, Art, and Society, 4th ed. (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2007), pp. 139-174.

Olympe de Gouges, The Rights of Women (1791).

Mary Wollstonecraft, “Chap. II. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed,” from A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792).

Linda Nochlin, “Women, Art, and Power,” in Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays (New York: Harper & Row, 1988), pp. 145-178. [Essay originally published 1988].

Carol Duncan, “Happy Mothers and Other New Ideas in Eighteenth-Century French Art,” in Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, eds. Norma Broude and Mary Garrard (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1982), pp. 200-219.

Natalie Boymel Kampen, “The Muted Other: Gender and Morality in Augustan Rome and Eighteenth-Century France,” in The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, eds. Norma Broude and Mary Garrard (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992), pp. 160-169.

Mary D. Sheriff, “The Portrait of the Queen: Elisabeth Vigèe-Lebrun’s Marie-Antoinette en chemise,” in Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History After Postmodernism, eds. Norma Broude and Mary Garrard (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), pp.120-141.