Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives. Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monster―women have been bound so long by these r…

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