Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface and Acknowledgments vii
• Notes ix
• Introduction: - Feminism and Art History 1
• Notes 16
• 1 - Matrilineal Reinterpretation of Some Egyptian Sacred Cows 19
• Notes 30
• 2 - The Great Goddess and the Palace Architecture of Crete 33
• Notes 42
• 3 - Mourners on Greek Vases: Remarks on the Social History of Women 45
• Notes 60
• 4 - Social Status and Gender in Roman Art: The Case of the Saleswoman 63
• Notes 76
• 5 - Eve and Mary: Conflicting Images of Medieval Woman 79
• Notes 99

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface and Acknowledgments vii
• Notes ix
• Introduction: - Feminism and Art History 1
• Notes 16
• 1 - Matrilineal Reinterpretation of Some Egyptian Sacred Cows 19
• Notes 30
• 2 - The Great Goddess and the Palace Architecture of Crete 33
• Notes 42
• 3 - Mourners on Greek Vases: Remarks on the Social History of Women 45
• Notes 60
• 4 - Social Status and Gender in Roman Art: The Case of the Saleswoman 63
• Notes 76
• 5 - Eve and Mary: Conflicting Images of Medieval Woman 79
• Notes 99
• 6 - Taking A Second Look: Observations on the IConography of A French Queen, Jeanne De Bourbon (1338-1378) 101
• Notes 116
• 7 - Delilah 119
• Notes 139
• 8 - Artemisia and Susanna 147
• Notes 167
• 9 - Judith Leyster's Proposition -- Between VIrtue and VIce 173
• Notes 180
• 10 - Art History and Its Exclusions: The Example of Dutch Art 183
• Notes 198
• 11 - Happy Mothers and Other New Ideas in Eighteenth-Century French Art 201
• Notes 217
• 12 - Lost and Found: Once More the Fallen Woman 221
• Notes 243
• 13 - Degas's "Misogyny" 247
• Notes 266
• 14 - Gender or Genius? the Women Artists of German Expressionism 271
• Notes 290
• 15 - Virility and Domination in Early Twentieth-Century Vanguard Painting 293
• Notes 313
• 16 - Miriam Schapiro and "Femmage": Reflections on the Conflict Between Decoration and Abstraction in Twentieth-Century Art 315
• Notes 328
• 17 - Quilts: The Great American Art 331
• Notes 345
• Notes on Contributors 347
• Index 351