Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies Fiction_Gift_Guide A New York Times Editor's

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Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies Fiction_Gift_Guide A New York Times Editor'sArt 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 restrictive roles, codified by patriarchal culture, that we scarcely see them. Catherine McCormack illuminates the assumptions behind these stereotypes whether writ large or subtly hidden. She ranges through Western art think Titian, Botticelli, and