Norma Broude
American art historian and educator known for scholarship in feminist art history; author and editor of influential works (e.g., Feminism and Art History) and longtime professor at American University.
Books
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1. Impressionism A Feminist Reading
A Feminist Reading
A feminist rereading of Impressionist art that examines how gender shaped subjects, styles, and critical reception; the study foregrounds women artists and the constraints of domesticity, the market, and institutional exclusion while showing how their pictorial strategies negotiated and sometimes subverted conventions of the feminine and the modern. Through close visual analysis and contextual history it reinterprets familiar motifs and canonical painters in terms of gaze, power, and social roles, arguing that Impressionism both reflected and unsettled contemporary gender norms and that traditional art-historical narratives have marginalized women’s contributions and perspectives.
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