num_pages: 240
description: Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women their bodies and their lives. Venus maiden wife mother monsterwomen have been bound so long by these restrictive roles codified by patriarchal culture that we scarcely see them. Catherine McCormack illuminates the assumptions behind these stereotypes whether writ large or subtly hidden. She ranges through Western artthink Titian Botticelli and Millaisand the image-saturated world of fashion photographs advertisements and social media and boldly counters these depictions by turning to the work of women artists like Morisot Ringgold Lacy and Walker who offer alternative images for exploring womens identity sexuality race and power in more complex ways. 20 illustrations
language: English
title: Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company