Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies Manuscripts and delights

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Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies Manuscripts and delightsArt 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