W S 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Juana Inés De La Cruz, Caterina Assandra, Christine De Pizan

• School: Iowa State University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: W S 201
• Professor: Michele Schaal

Document Summary

Less than 5% of artists in the modern art section are female, but 85% of the nudes are female. Griselda pollock (1998; 2015: not in art history, underrepresented, underfunded, trivialization/censorship. Need to rethink discipline (pollock 1989: 2, 5) Problem: perpetuates hierarchy (cid:862)mar(cid:272)h (cid:1012)th (cid:455)(cid:374)dro(cid:373)e(cid:863) (cid:862) pe(cid:272)ial(cid:863) (cid:272)ourses, e(cid:454)hi(cid:271)its, et(cid:272). Christine de pizan: 1364-1430, book of the city of ladies (1405, remarkable woman, agai(cid:374)st (cid:374)egati(cid:448)e stereot(cid:455)pes a(cid:374)d (cid:862)(cid:271)la(cid:373)e the (cid:448)i(cid:272)ti(cid:373)(cid:863) Hilegard von bingen: 1098-1179, recorded her visions. Influential abbess: visio(cid:374) (cid:1006): (cid:862)(cid:449)isdo(cid:373) a(cid:374)d her sisters(cid:863): vidi etia(cid:373) (cid:894)(cid:455)es, i sa(cid:449)(cid:895) Sor juana ines de la cruz: 1648-1695, (cid:862)the poet"s a(cid:374)s(cid:449)er to the most illustrious or filotea de la cruz(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1010)(cid:1013)(cid:1005)(cid:895, wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s edu(cid:272)atio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:373)argi(cid:374)alizatio(cid:374) Mary wollstonecraft: 1759-1797, a vindication of the right of woman (1792, education, equal rights. Elisabeth jacquet de la guerre: 1665-1729, major composer, adapted italian music to french culture. Charlotte perkins gilman: 1860-1935, herland (1915, 1979, feminist utopia, anti-wwi and patriarchy.