This week your readings are focused around the idea of the "heroic" woman--something we identified in class as a potentially transgressive female role. In your blog posts you may wish to consider what qualifies as heroism for a woman, and why that could be transgressive. Of course, you may also consider anything else that interests you!
Whitney Chadwick, “The Other Renaissance,” Chapter 3, Women, Art, and Society, 4th ed. (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2007), pp. 87-113.
Ruth 1-4 New Oxford Annotated Bible [NOAB].
Judith 2-4, 7-16 NOAB.
Susanna 1: 1-63 NOAB.
Mary D. Garrard, “Artemisia and Susanna,” in Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, eds. Norma Broude and Mary Garrard (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1982), pp.146-171.
Sheila ffolliott, “Learning to Be Looked At: A Portrait of (the Artist as) a Young Woman in Agnès Merlet’s Artemisia,” in Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History After Postmodernism, eds. Norma Broude and Mary Garrard (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), pp. 48-61.
Mary D. Garrard, “Artemisia’s Hand,” in Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History After Postmodernism, eds. Norma Broude and Mary Garrard (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), pp. 62-79.
