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Feminist art
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I'm thinking of writing my degree thesis on the female characteristics which manifest themselves in visual art. Reading recommendations would be very helpful as I am finding the enormity of the task quite overwhelming.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Do you mean characteristics by women artists, or depictions of women? There are loads of good books about this - I'd recommend:
# Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology
by Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock
# Women, Art, and Society (World of Art) by Whitney Chadwick
# Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art (Routledge Classics) by Griselda Pollock
# Gender and Art (Art & Its Histories) by Gillian Perry
# Differencing the Canon: Feminism and the Writing of Arts Histories (Re Visions: Critical Studies in the History & Theory of Art) by Griselda Pollock
# Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology
by Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock
# Women, Art, and Society (World of Art) by Whitney Chadwick
# Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art (Routledge Classics) by Griselda Pollock
# Gender and Art (Art & Its Histories) by Gillian Perry
# Differencing the Canon: Feminism and the Writing of Arts Histories (Re Visions: Critical Studies in the History & Theory of Art) by Griselda Pollock