TY - BOOK AU - Chadwick,Whitney TI - Women, art, and society T2 - World of art SN - 9780500202937 (pbk.) : U1 - 704.042 CHA PY - 1996/// CY - London PB - Thames & Hudson KW - Women artists KW - Social conditions KW - Art and Design KW - ukslc KW - The arts: general issues KW - thema KW - History of art KW - Gender studies: women & girls N1 - Previous ed.: 1990; Introduction: Art history and the woman artist -- One -- The middle ages -- Two -- The Renaissance ideal -- Three -- The other Renaissance -- Four -- Domestic genres and women painters in northern Europe -- Five -- A amateurs and academics: a new ideology of femininity in France and England -- Six -- Sex, Class and Power in Victorian England -- Seven -- Towards Utopia: moral reform and American art in the nineteenth century -- Eight -- Separate but unequal: woman's sphere and the new at -- Nine -- Modernism, Abstraction, and the new woman 1910 - 25 -- Ten -- modernist representation: the female body -- Eleven -- Gender, Race and Modernism after the second world war -- Twelve -- Feminist art in the north America and Great Britain -- Thirteen -- New directions: a partial overview -- Index; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Looking at women artists from the Middle Ages to the present, this book examines the way their work has been perceived in the history of Western art and re-examines the works themselves ER -