World of Art: Women, Art, & SocietyArt historian Whitney Chadwicks acclaimed bestselling study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who transcended their gender to produce major works of art. While introducing some of the many women since the Middle Ages whose contributions to visual culture have often been neglected, Chadwicks survey reexamines the works themselves and the ways in which they have been perceived as marginal, often in direct