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    • A Dangerous Woman: The Art of Honoré Sharrer
    • Japanese Lacquer In The Collection Of Dr. Elizabeth E. Force
    • About Face: People, Animals, and Mythical Beings in Islamic Art
    • A History of Handwork: Photographs from the SCMA Collection
    • Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero: The Villas of Oplontis near Pompeii
    • Words and Images in Chinese Culture
    • The Hilary Tolman, class of 1987, Collection of Twentieth-Century Japanese Prints
    • When in Rome: Prints & Photographs, 1550–1900
    • Eric Avery: AIDS WORK
    • The Lay of the Land
    • Käthe Kollwitz’s Women and War
    • Dislocation/Urban Experience
    • MARY BAUERMEISTER The New York Decade
    • Figure and Image
    • Tara Donovan MOIRÉ
    • Bow Down
    • Framework X
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    • Framework IX
    • River of Gold
    • Look at Me, Me, Me!
    • Eye on the Street
    • 体 Modern Images of the Body from East Asia
    • Summer of Love
    • Collecting Art of Asia
    • Less is More: The Minimal Print
    • Monsters
    • Color and Heat: Pan-American works from the AGPA collection
    • Drawn to Excellence
    • Un/American
    • Dislocation/Negotiating Identity
    • Frameworks VIII
    • Image and After-Image
    • Chinese Shan-Shui Tattoo
    • outside the [box]
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    • Debussy's Paris: Art, Music, & Sounds of the City
    • Susan Heideman: Animalmineralvegetable
    • Pursuing Beauty
    • Andrea Fraser Acquisition
    • Jerome Liebling
    • Crosscurrents: Art of the Southeastern Congo
    • Transcending Boundaries
    • Women's Work
    • The Eye is a Door
    • L.A. Style: Printmaking at Gemini G.E.L., 1966–1976
    • Framework VII: Restoring the Boundaries
    • Roman Signer New Acquisition
    • Surface Tension
    • Portraits of the Almost-Human
    • Tim Davis: Upstate New York Olympics (2010–11)
    • FLOWERING STARS: Prints by Dwight Pogue
    • To trace for to carry
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    • Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment
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      • Work: Leaving it to the Professionals
      • Image Highlights
      • Acknowledgments
      • Thinking About Womxn Today by Tara Sacerdote '18
    • The Many Faces of Womanhood in East Asia
    • Video and New Media Gallery: Inas Halabi's "Letters to Fritz and Paul"
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Introduction

  I. The Fair Sex

  II. Women in Training

  III. What’s Love Got To Do With It?

  IV. Married with Children

  V. Dressing the Part   

  VI. Aging Gracefully

  VII. Pleasurable Pursuits

  VIII. Private Pleasures

   IX. Work

Image Highlights

Public Programs

Thinking about Womxn Today by Tara Sacerdote '18

Acknowledgments

 

 

 

Image: Pierre Allais (c.1700–1782 Paris).Seated Lady in a Blue Dress, 1751. Oil on canvas. 99 x 79 cm.

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