Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies Fiction_Gift_Guide foreign policy at a critical

foreign policy at a critical moment in history

On a Sunday night at her daughter’s school play

Oliver reacts in ways shocking and devastating

and shows why economic instability is a chronic risk

A New York Times Editor's Choice | A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of the Year

Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies Fiction_Gift_Guide foreign policy at a criticalArt historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives. Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monster women have been bound so long by these restrictive roles, codified by patriarchal culture, that we scarcely see them. Catherine McCormack illuminates the assumptions behind these stereotypes whether writ large or subtly hidden. She ranges through Western art think Titian, Botticelli, and