What special conditions affected women artists and the production,
display, and marketing of their work?  How difficult was it to
pursue an artistic career when, for most of history, women were the
legal property of their fathers and husbands?  Did the social and
economic transformations of the 19th and 20th centuries have a
different impact on women than they did on men?  What is feminist
art history and what contribution can it make to our understanding
of cultural production?  These are among the questions that will be
probed in this course surveying the work of women artists from the
Middle Ages to the present.  Evaluation will be based on three
quizzes, a research paper, and an essay final.