Recommended Books
Barthes, Roland. Image-Music-Text (London: Fontana, 1977).

B�n�zit, Emmanuel.
Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs 14 vols. (Paris: Gr�nd, 1999).
(see also 8-volume 1960 ed.)

Doy, Gen.
Women and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century France, 1800-1852 (London: Leicester, 1998).

Chadwick, Whitney.
Women, Art, and Society 3rd ed. (London: Thames, 2002).

Denis, Rafael Cardoso and Colin Trodd, eds.
Art and the Academy in the Nineteenth Century (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000).

Faludi, Susan. Backlash:
The Undeclared War Against American Women (New York: Doubleday, 1991).

Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique (New York: Dell, 1963).

Gaze, Delia, ed.
Dictionary of Women Artists 2 vols. (London: Fitzroy, 1997).

Gabet, Charles.
Dictionnaire des artistes de l'�cole fran�aise au XIXe si�cle. Peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure, dessin, lithographie et composition musicale (Paris: Vergne, 1831).

Greer, Germaine.
The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work (London: Secker 1979).

Guffey, Elizabeth.
Drawing an Elusive Line: The Art of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (Newark: U of Delaware, 2001).

Halliday, Tony.
Facing the Public: Portraiture in the Aftermath of the French Revolution (Manchester: Manchester UP, 1999).

Hunt, Lynn, ed.
Eroticism and the Body Politic (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1991).

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The Family Romance of the French Revolution (London: Routledge, 1992).

Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa.
Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror (New Haven: Yale UP, 1999).      

Mainz, Valerie and Griselda Pollock, eds.
Work and the Image I: Work, Craft and Labour: Visual Representations in Changing Histories (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000).

Mitchell, Juliet.
Psychoanalysis and Feminism: Freud, Reich, Laing and Women (New York: Random, 1974).

Nelson, Robert S. and Richard Shiff, eds. Critical Terms for Art History (Chicago: U of Chicago, 1996).

Nochlin, Linda.
Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1988).

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Representing Women (London: Thames, 1999).

Perry, Gill and Michael Rossington, eds. Femininity and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture (Manchester: Manchester UP, 1994).

Robinson, Hilary, ed.
Feminism-Art-Theory: An Anthology, 1968-2000 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001).

Schapiro, Meyer.
Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society (New York: Braziller, 1994).

Schneider-Adams, Laurie.
The Methodologies of Art: An Introduction (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1996).

Sutherland-Harris, Ann and Linda Nochlin.
Women Artists: 1550-1950 (Los Angeles: LA County Museum of Art, 1976).
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