Art history and the woman artist; the middle ages; the Renaissance ideal; the other Renaissance; domestic genres and women painters in Northern Europe; amateurs and acedemics - a new ideology of femininity in France and England; sex, class and power in Victorian England; toward Utopia - moral reform and American art in the 19th century; seperate but unequal - women's sphere and the new art; abstraction and the new women; modernist representation; the female body; gender and modernism after World War II; feminist art in North America and Great Britain; new directions - a partial overview.