1. In the Beginning: The Sixteenth Century • 2. The New Self-Confidence: The Seventeenth Century • 3. Professionals and Amateurs: The Eighteenth Century • 4. The Opening Door: The Nineteenth Century • 5. Breaking Taboos: The Twentieth Century • 6. Feminism and After: Towards the Contemporary
'Splendid ... a tour de force ... Its lucid prose, evocative illustrations and handsome production make it a joy to read and savour' Times Higher Education
Frances Borzello has specialized in the social history of art since obtaining her PhD at the University of London.
'A landmark study' - Daily Telegraph
'A cornucopia of the weird, the chilling and the sublime … lucid
and unexpectedly compelling … fantastic' - Observer
'Beautifully presented … invites us to consider women’s
self-portraiture as a genre in its own right … invaluable' - Times
Literary Supplement
'Books of this high calibre are few and far between in feminist art
history … Written in elegant prose that will draw in even casual
readers, it bears a wealth of new material' - Library Journal
'Wonderful' - The Times
'Borzello, always interesting and pertinent, is a wake-up call
which makes the reader aware of how much they may have been
missing' - Mature Times
'So good, so lavishly illustrated, and so mind-bendingly expansive
that I own two copies of it. The first of these is battered,
spine-cracked. The other, pristine, I reserve for swooning over' -
Observer
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