Introducing Feminist Art History

Available now in both paperback and e-book editions from amazon.com, this volume brings together the series of landmark introductory essays and prefaces written by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard for their three anthologies on feminism and art history (1982–2005); their introduction to The Power of Feminist Art, the first book on the American Feminist Art movement (1994); and the catalogue essay for Claiming Space, their co-curated exhibition of feminist art at American University (2007). Collectively, these introductory essays articulate many of the major and still relevant questions that have concerned feminist art historians and critics over the past quarter century, and they define shifts of thinking and theoretical controversies that developed in the field as a whole over those years. With a new preface entitled “Introducing the Introductions,” these essays will provide scholars, teachers, and a younger generation of readers and students with an accessible overview of the historical evolution of feminist thinking about art and art history during its formative period.