Women, Art and Society (3rd Edition)

Women, Art and Society was first published in 1990 and quickly came to be regarded as an essential and popular survey of women artists from the Middle Ages to the present.

The book was intended to provide a general introduction to the history of women’s involvement in the visual arts, focusing on painters and sculptors and the ideologies that shaped production and representation. Chadwick challenged the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule, who transcended their sex to produce great works of art. Rather, Chadwick’s survey re‐examines the works themselves and the ways in which they have...