WOMEN IN THE PICTURE

Women's identity has long been stifled by a limited set of archetypes. These images are found everywhere in pictures from art history's classics to advertising, while women artists have been overlooked and held back from shaping more empowering roles. In this impassioned book, art historian Catherine McCormack asks us to look again at what these images have told us to value and shows us how women artists have offered us new ways of thinking about women's identity, sexuality, race and power.