Reading List - Visual Arts
Broude, N., & Garrard, M. D. (1982).
Feminism and art history: Question the litany. New York: Harper & Row.
Seventeen essays combine to discuss every major period of art from ancient Egypt to now showing how a sexual bias has shaped art for centuries.
Broude, N., & Garrard, M. D. (1992). The expanding discourse: Feminism and art history. New York, New York: IconEditions.
Serving as a sequel to Feminism and art history: Question the litany, twenty-nine essays discuss the art from the Renaissance until now under a feminist perspective.
Broude, N., & Garrard, M. D. (2005). Reclaiming female agency: Feminist art after post-modernism. Berkley: University of California Press.
The third in a set of books that have been discussing feminism in art. This volume contains twenty-three essays discussing the art and issues from the Renaissance to the present in a feminist poststructuralist perspective.
Chadwick, W. (2007). Women, art and society. London: Thames & Hudson.
Women artists often transcend their sex in their art and many of these representations have gone overlooked, and here they are given the attention.
Nochlin, L. (1988). Women, art, and power and other essays. New York: Harper & Row.
A collection of seven essays about women artists and women in art history.
Pollock, G. (1988). Vision and difference: Femininity, feminism and the histories of art. London; New York: Routledge.
A discussion of art history from the feminist perspective bringing in new ideas historically and culturally about female artists.