Singular women

In this volume, women historians probe the dilemmas and complexities of writing about the woman artist, past and present. Singular women proposes a new feminist investigation of the history of art by considering how a historian's theoretical approach affects the way in which research progresses and stories are told. These thirteen essays on specific artists, from the Renaissance to the present day, address their work and history to examine how each has been inserted into or left out of the history of art. The artists referred to are: Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Leyster, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Clementina Hawarden, Sally Mann, Harriet Power, Mary Cassatt, Jessie Willcox Smith, Florine Stettheimer, Jo Hopper, Eleanor Agnes Raymond, Elizabeth Catlett, Nancy Spero, Carolee Schneemann, Louise Bourgeois, and Francesca Woodman.