Women, Femininity and Public Space in European Visual Culture, 1789–1914

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Women, Femininity and Public Space in European Visual Culture, 1789–1914 is written by Dr Temma Balducci and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1409465721 (ISBN 10) and 9781409465720 (ISBN 13).

Focusing on images of or produced by nineteenth-century European women, this volume explores genteel femininity as resistant to easy codification vis-à-vis the public. Attending to various iterations of the public as space, sphere and discourse, sixteen essays challenge the false binary construct that has held the public as the sole preserve of prosperous men. By considering works in a range of media by an array of canonical and understudied women artists, they demonstrate that definitions of both femininity and the public were mutually defining and constantly shifting.