The woman question, 1550-2025

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"Through contributions from eminent experts, including feminist art historian Griselda Pollock and philosopher Chiara Bottici, and detailed notes on one hundred select artworks with images, The Woman Question 1550-2025 brings together over five centuries of cultural production to address ways gender, power, and agency have intersected over time. It challenges the notion that women artists before the twentieth century were rare exceptions. This transhistorical book and accompanying exhibition curated by Alison M. Gingeras demonstrate that while often underrecognized and working against various social prohibitions, women have had continuous creative agency--and have exercised their artistic power in decisive ways to assert their vital presence and unique lived experiences."-- Distributor's website.

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The woman question, the human question / Joanna Mytkowska -- The woman question 1550-2025 / Alison M. Gingeras -- Singularity and complexity : thinking the world with women as our artist guides / Griselda Pollock -- The woman question in the art pluriverse / Ewa Klekot -- Philosophy and women's tongues / Chiara Bottici -- Exhibition chapters and selected artworks / Alison M. Gingeras -- Femmes fortes: Allegories & agency -- Education & the canon -- Palettes & power: Self-portrait as manifesto -- A muse of her own -- Surreal selves, mystical me -- No gate, no lock, no bolt -- Of woman born -- Wartime women -- Anonymous was a woman: On feminist art history and "artists once known" -- Was the Brunswick Monogramist a woman? On Mayken Verhulst Beata Purc -- Saint Wilgefortis: A feminist apocryphon Olga Tokarczuk in conversation with Alison M. Gingeras -- Film program : an evening with... -- Authors' biographies -- List of exhibited works -- Lenders & acknowledgments -- Index of artists.