Routledge Research in Gender and Art
About the Book Series
Routledge Research in Gender and Art is a new series in art history and visual studies, focusing on gender, sexuality, and feminism. Proposals for monographs and edited collections on this topic are welcomed.
Reframing Allegory in Work by American Women Painters in the Gilded Age: Six Case Studies
1st Edition
By Lisa N. Peters
July 31, 2026
Addressing paintings depicting idealized and allegorical female figures, this book presents a series of six case studies of US women artists. Lisa N. Peters posits that the indirectness and subterfuge used in this type of works afforded nineteenth century women a means of self expression and self ...
Women Artists and Abstract Art in Postwar Rome: Connected by Travel
1st Edition
Edited
By Jelena Stojković, Daniel Sturgis
June 05, 2026
This is a comprehensive collection of essays about women artists working with abstraction in postwar Rome, from the late 1940s through the 1970s. The diverse range of contributors from around the world analyse the individual artistic trajectories of more than fifteen women artists and critics, ...
Women in Early Modern Venetian Art: Fluid Identities
1st Edition
By Sabrina DeTurk
March 09, 2026
Through several case studies, this book suggests ways in which the art of early modern Venice, particularly its paintings, may be interpreted through a hybrid analysis of their visual form and social context to expand our understanding of women as active participants in the social, ...
Art and Feminisms: Histories, Methods, and Legacies
1st Edition
Edited
By Erin Silver
January 30, 2026
Through an international cohort of contributors, this book examines the rich and diverse strands of artistic and cultural production from the nineteenth century to the present day that contribute to elastic and ever-expanding histories of feminist art. The contributions facilitate an understanding ...
Gender and the Woman Artist in Early Modern Iberia
1st Edition
By Catherine Hall-van den Elsen
September 28, 2025
This monograph explores the social constructs surrounding artistic production in early modern Iberia through the lenses of gender and class by examining the rarely considered contribution of creative women in Spain and Portugal between 1550 and 1700. Using the life-stage framework popular in texts ...
Morisot’s Modernism and Impressionist Art: Interiors, Relationships and Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Claire Moran
September 28, 2025
This volume reframes French Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) in the history of art via a focus on the spaces and people that informed her work and thereby offers a new interpretation of Impressionism and of modernist aesthetics. Claire Moran utilizes close visual analyses of ...
Queer Methodology for Photography
1st Edition
By Asa Johannesson
September 28, 2025
This book presents new ways of approaching photographic discourse from a queer perspective, offering discussions on what a queering methodology for photography may entail by drawing links between artistic strategies in photographic practice and key theoretical concepts from photography theory, ...
Women Photographers and Mexican Modernity: Framing the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Julia R. Brown, Radmila Stefkova, Tamara R. Williams
September 28, 2025
The photographers discussed in this book probe the most contentious aspects of social organization in Mexico, questioning what it means to belong, to be Mexican, to experience modernity, and to create art as a culturally, politically, or racially marginalized person. By choosing human subjects, ...
Women and Photography in Apartheid South Africa
1st Edition
By Marie Meyerding
April 28, 2025
Tracing the lives and works of five women in four case studies, author Marie Meyerding examines the representation of women in the field of photography in South Africa in the second half of the twentieth century. All of them are critically understudied, with no existing scholarship dedicated ...
Everyday Joys in Twenty-First Century Queer American Painting: Ecstatic Ordinarinesses
1st Edition
By David Deutsch
January 30, 2025
Taken together, the chapters in this book outline a theory and a practice of painting ecstatic ordinarinesses in contemporary, diverse American queer life. To do so, it offers the first sustained study of five individually renowned twenty-first-century queer painters—Gio Black Peter, Doron Langberg...
Intimacy, Photography, Shame: 1969–1992
1st Edition
By Harrison Adams
December 03, 2024
This study argues that intimacy requires an overcoming of shame, and each of these artists, in their own way, uses photography to frame moments that can be shameful to some and intimate others, leaving it to the viewer to navigate this affectively perilous terrain. From the cancellation of ...
Food, Feminism, and Women’s Art in 1970s Southern California
1st Edition
By Emily Elizabeth Goodman
October 04, 2024
This book explores how feminist artists continued to engage with kitchen culture and food practices in their work as women’s art moved from the margins to the mainstream. In particular, this book examines the use of food in the art practices of six women artists and collectives working in Southern ...