Whitney Chadwick is Professor of Art at San Francisco State University. Among her other books are Significant Others and Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, both published by Thames & Hudson.

Introduction: Art History and the Woman Artist; 1. The Middle Ages; 2. The Renaissance Ideal; 3. The Other Renaissance; 4. Domestic Genres and Women Painters in Northern Europe; 5. Amateurs and Academics: A New Ideology of Feminity in France and England; 6. Sex, Class and Power in Victorian England; 7. Toward Utopia: Moral Reform and American Art in the Nineteenth Century; 8. Separate but Unequal: Woman's Sphere and the New Art; 9. Modernism, Abstraction, and the New Woman, 1910 - 25; 10. Modernist Representation: The Female Body; 11. Gender, Race, and Modernism After the Second World War; 12. Feminist Art in North America and Great Britain; 13. New Directions: A Partial Overview; 14. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart.