Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-261) and index.
Contents
Memoirs of an Ad Hoc art historian -- The myth of the woman warrior -- Gericault : the absence of women -- The image of the working woman -- Courbet's real allegory : rereading The painter's studio -- A house is not a home : Degas and the subversion of the family -- Mary Cassatt's modernity -- Body politics : Seurat's Poseuses.
