Woman's Art Journal Volume 47, Number 1 (PDF)

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Spring/Summer 2026

Parallel Perspectives
p. 2
By Joan Marter and Aliza Rachel Edelman

Portraits, Issues and Insights
p. 3
Utopic Tropical Imaginings: The Black Speculative Undercurrents in the Art of Firelei Báez and Adrienne Elise Tarver
Samantha A. Noël

p. 15
Artemisian Afterlives in American Feminist Art
Jennifer S. Griffiths

p. 32
“Categories Always Leak”: Zarina Bhimji’s Institutional Critique
Allison K. Young

Reviews
p. 38
Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great
By Rosalind P. Blakesley
Reviewed by Tori Champion

p. 40
Rachel Ruysch: Nature into Art
Edited by Robert Schindler, Bernd Ebert, and Anna C. Knaap
Reviewed by Oana Stan

p. 43
Sofonisba Anguissola
By Cecilia Gamberini
Elisabetta Sirani
By Adelina Modesti
Artemisia Gentileschi and the Business of Art
By Christopher R. Marshall
Reviewed by Margaret M. Barnes

p. 46
Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939
By Robyn Asleson with contributions by Zakiya R. Adair, Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Samuel N. Dorf, and Tirza True Latimer
Reviewed by Britta Dwyer

p. 49
A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945
Edited by Alexis Goodwin
Reviewed by Nancy E. Green

p. 51
Anita Steckel: The Feminist Art of Sexual Politics
Edited by Richard Meyer and Rachel Middleman
Sexually Explicit Art, Feminist Theory, and Gender in the 1970s
By Christian Liclair
Reviewed by Kalas Ke

p. 54
Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped the Museum of Modern Art
Edited by Ann Temkin and Romy Silver-Kohn
Reviewed by Shannon Bewley

p. 56
Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery
Edited by Eric Crosby and Sarah Humphreville
Reviewed by Anna E. Dobbins

p. 57
Undesirability and Her Sisters: Black Women’s Visual Work and the Ethics of Representation
By Tiffany E. Barber
Reviewed by Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton

p. 60
Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art: The Black Female Fantastic
By Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton
Reviewed by Sarah Richter

p. 62
Gail Rebhan: About Time
By Sally Stein
Reviewed by Sally Jane Brown

p. 65
Diana Al-Hadid: unbecoming
Edited by Rachel Winter and Molly Taylor
Reviewed by Şeyma Müge Iba

p. 67
Samia Halaby: Centers of Energy
Edited by Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert and Rachel Winter
Reviewed by Roja Najafi

p. 70
Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women
Edited by Margaret C. Flinn
Reviewed by Natalie J. Swain

Color Plates