Why is everything that compromises greatness in art coded as 'feminine'? Has the feminist critique of Art History yet effected real change? With a new preface b

This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in

The Mancini Sisters, Marie and Hortense, were born in Rome, brought to the court of Louis XIV of France, and strategically married off by their uncle, Cardinal

Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's exper

Tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses.