Women and Gender in the Arts

The last few decades have seen a growing interest in the study of women and gender in the arts. An increasing number of scholars are conducting research on the artistic and material production of female artists or under female patronage. Additionally, a significant number of museums have made it part of their mission to acquire works by women and/or organize exhibitions focused on women in the arts. Furthermore, scholars are increasingly foregrounding questions of gender in the arts and exploring new ways in which gender has impacted artistic production and expression. The aim of this series is to share and understand the state of the field, and to disseminate the output of recent research. It is devoted to women's studies and gender in the arts broadly speaking: visual arts, architecture, literature, illumination and material culture. Proposals are welcome from early career and established scholars dealing with any aspect of women's cultural production and female patronage from the Middle Ages to the present.