Old mistresses: women, art, and ideology

A Lonely Preface (2013)

Preface (1980)

Acknowledgments

1. Critical stereotypes: the 'essential feminine' or how essential is femininity?

2. Crafty women and the hierarchy of the arts

3. 'God's little artist'

4. Painted Ladies

5. Back to the twentieth century: femininity and feminism

Conclusion

Select bibliography and further reading

Index