Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and the Histories of Art

Abstract

Introduction 1: Feminist interventions in the histories of artChapter 2 Vision, voice and power: feminist art histories and MarxismChapter 3 Modernity and the spaces of femininityChapter 4 Woman as a sign in pre-Raphaelite literature: the representation of Elisabeth Siddall (written in collaboration with Deborah Cherry)Chapter 5: A Photo-essay - signs of femininityChapter 6: Woman as sign: psychoanalytic readingsChapter 7: Screening the seventies: sexuality and representation in feminist practice - a Brechtian perspectiveNotesBibliographyIndex