Introduction: The Expanding Discourse

Virgin's One Bare Breast: Nudity, Gender, and Religious Meaning in Tuscan Early Renaissance Culture

Women in Frames: The Gaze, the Eye, the Profile in Renaissance Portraiture

Leonardo da Vinci: Female Portraits, Female Nature

Taming of the Blue: Writing Out Color in Renaissance Theory

Botticelli's Primavera: A Lesson for the Bride

Titian's Sacred and Profane Love and Marriage

The Loggia dei Lanzi: A Showcase of Female Subjugation

Erotics of Absolutism: Rubens and the Mystification of Sexual Violence

Muted Other: Gender and Morality in Augustan Rome and Eighteenth-Century Europe

Secluded Vision: Images of Feminine Experience in Nineteenth-Century Europe

'Disagreeably Hidden': Construction and Constriction of the Lesbian Body in Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair

'L'Art Feminin': Formation of a Critical Category in Late Nineteeth-Century France

Morisot's Wet Nurse: Construction of Work and Leisure in Impressionist Painting

Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity

Edgar Degas and French Feminism, ca. 1880: 'The Young Spartans,' the Brothel Monotypes, and the Bathers Revisited

Renoir and the Natural Women

Going Native: Paul Gauguin and the Invention of Primitivist Modernism

Gauguin's Tahitian Body

The MoMA's Hot Mamas

Constructing Myths and Ideologies in Matisse's Odalisques

Ladies Shot and Painted: Female Embodiment in Surrealist Art

Culture, Politics, and Identity in the Paintings of Frida Kahlo

Egalitarian Vision, Gendered Experience: Women Prinmakers and the WPA/FAP Graphic Arts Project

Lee Krasner as L.K.

Georgia O'Keefe and Feminism: A Problem of Position

Judy Chicago's Dinner Party: A Personal Vision of Women's History

Race Riots. Cocktail Parties. Black Panthers. Moon Shots and Feminists: Faith Ringgold's Observations on the 1960s in America

Afrofemcentrism and Its Fruition in the Art of Elizabeth Catlett and Faith Ringgold

Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism