Beyond the Frame

Deborah Cherry is Professor of the Histoy of Art at the University of Sussex. Her previous publications include Painting Women: Victorian Women Artists (Routledge 1993).

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Section 01 1 Artists and militants, 1850-66; Section 01-01-01 Artists and militants; Section 01-01-02 Geographies of art and feminism; Section 01-01-03 Modern women, modern life; Section 01-01-04 Writing women, art and feminism; Section 02 2 In/between the colonial theatre: visuality, visibility and modernity; Section 02-01-01 Shuttling, ‘soul making’ and the art of travel; Section 02-01-02 Modernity, visuality and visibility; Section 03 3 The ‘worlding’ of Algeria: feminism, imperialism and visual culture; Section 03-01-01 Worlding; Section 03-01-02 ‘a texting, textualising’: feminist subjects in the landscape; Section 03-01-03 ‘a making into art, a making into an object to be understood’; Section 04 4 Harriet Hosmer’s Zenobia: a question of authority; Section 04-01-01 Authorship and authority; Section 04-01-02 The making of a name and a statue; Section 04-01-03 Warrior queen, savant and woman of colour; Section 05 5 Tactics and allegories, 1866-1900; Section 05-01-01 Feminist politics and professional strategies; Section 05-01-02 Women, power, knowledge: the image of the learned woman in the 1860s; Section 05-01-03 Feminism and the tactics of representation; Section 05-01-04 Towards an allegorical reading; Appendix: selected publications on Algeria, 1857–68; Notes; Suggestions for further reading; Index;