Differencing the canon: feminist desire and the writing of art's histories/
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London ; New York:
Routledge,
[2003 reprint]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Firing the canon, 1 About canons and culture wars, 2 Differencing: feminism's encounter with the canon, Part II: Reading against the grain: reading for.., 3 The ambivalence of the maternal body: re/drawing Van Gogh, 4 Fathers of modern art: mothers of invention: cocking a leg at Toulouse-Lautrec, Part III: Heroines: setting women in the canon, 5 The female hero and the making of a feminist canon: Artemisia Gentileschi's representations of Susana and Judith, 6 Feminist mythologies and missing mothers: Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Bronte, Artemisia Gentileschi and Cleopatra, 7 Revenge: Lubaina Himid and the making of new narratives for new histories, Part IV: Who is the other? 8 Some letters of feminism, politics and modern art: when Edgar Degas shared a space with Mary Cassatt at the suffrage benefit exhibition, New York 1915, 9 A tale of three women; seeing in the dark, seeing double, at least, with Manet.