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Thinking Women represents state-of-the-art feminist scholarship in the field of eighteenth-century French and British art and visual culture. Topics range from women and their activities in art and science, to gendered representations of childhood and animals to fashion, femininity and temporality. Some chapters center on individual genres like hunting portraits, or on specific paintings, such as David Martin's Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray (ca. 1780) or Marie Guillemine Benoist's Portrait of a Young Black Woman (Madeleine) (1800). Others make contributions on the work of familiar actors like Jean-Siméon Chardin or Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. The volume also brings to the fore lesser-known figures including Marie-Thérèse Reboul, Madeleine Basseporte, Marguerite Le Comte, and Gabrielle Capet. Written by eleven distinguished (art) historians, the assembled essays engage with and honor the work of the late Mary D. Sheriff, whose unpublished chapter on women artists’ self-portraiture opens the book.

represents state-of-the-art feminist scholarship in the field of eighteenth-century French and British art and visual culture. Topics range from women and their activities in art and science, to gendered representations of childhood and animals to fashion, femininity and temporality. Some chapters center on individual genres like hunting portraits, or on specific paintings, such as David Martin''s Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray (ca. 1780) or Marie Guillemine Benoist''s Portrait of a Young Black Woman (Madeleine) (1800). Others make contributions on the work of familiar actors like Jean-Siméon Chardin or Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. The volume also brings to the fore lesser-known figures including Marie-Thérèse Reboul, Madeleine Basseporte, Marguerite Le Comte, and Gabrielle Capet. Written by eleven distinguished (art) historians, the assembled essays engage with and honor the work of the late Mary D. Sheriff, whose unpublished chapter on women artists self-portraiture opens the book. This book takes up some of the most pressing questions for the study of eighteenth-century art and culture. These include: o questions to do with the intersectionality of race and gender that move us beyond now traditional approaches to the image of the black, to discuss the role of the black model and the possibilities for black female agency within a system of imperial domination; o questions of female agency more generally demonstrating how women navigated in other domains as well: in the art world (official and unofficial), the natural sciences, various kinds of social contexts. It explores how visual representations, from painting to fashion illustrations, contribute to the cultural process of gender formation; offers a model for how to write women back into history, and demonstrates how to practice an art history that reclaims the subversive power of reinterpretation and recognizes the subversive power of images to resist the authority of absolute, fixed meaning. - Provides new insights into the wealth of eighteenth-century cultural practices in which women took an active part. - Breaks new ground by integrating these subjects into a broader study of French (and British) eighteenth-century art.

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