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Women’s History Month

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Banner reading "International Women's day" in white text inside a black box. This box is paired with ink illustrations of flowers in black and white, as well as flecks of gold in the background. A sun design in the same gold rests in the middle of the image.

International Women’s day is an annual event that occurs on March 8th, aiming to commemorate the achievements of women while also advocating for gender equality. To celebrate this, the History Faculty Library at the Radcliffe Camera has arranged a display in the Upper Gladstone Link for Women’s History Month that will be held until the end of March.

This year, the display is focusing on women in the visual arts throughout history, specifically as active participants in the discipline: creators, curators, critics and patrons.

Photograph of women's history month display. The book titles include, from the top left: Women, art and patronage from Henry III to Edward III, 1216-1377 by Loveday Lewes Gee, Vision and difference : femininity, feminism and the histories of art by Griselda Pollock, Old mistresses : women, art and ideology by Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock, Women and art in early modern Europe : patrons, collectors, and connoisseurs edited by Cynthia Lawrence, Women and visual culture in early nineteenth-century France 1800-1852 by Gen Doy, Women in the Victorian art world edited by Clarissa Campbell Orr, The obstacle race : the fortunes of women painters and their work by Germaine Greer, Women artists : recognition and reappraisal from the early Middle Ages to the twentieth century by Karen Petersen and J. J. Wilson, Women, art, and society by Whitney Chadwick, Pre-raphaelite women artists vy Jan Marsh & Pamela Gerrish Nunn, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1755-1842 by Joseph Baillio and Our hidden heritage : five centuries of women artists by Eleanor Tufts.

In addition to the display in the Radcliffe Camera, a series of 8 e-books have also been selected according to this theme. Click on any of the pictures below to be taken to the SOLO record for each resource. Accessing the materials will require a Single-Sign-On Login for Oxford University members. External readers will need to log in with their Bodleian accounts while using the Bodleian libraries network (either the Bodleian Libraries Wi-fi network or using the reader PCs within the library.)

Book cover of "Angelica Kauffman: Art and Sensibility" by Angela Rosenthal, which includes a self-portait of the artist in warm brown tones.
Book cover for "Artemisia Gentileschi and the Business of Art" by Christopher Marshall. It includes a self-portrait of the artist as St. Catherine of Alexandria.
Book cover for " Berthe Morisot's Images of Women " by Anne Higonnet. Includes self-portrait of the artist in a yellow dress, the image is surrounded by a blue background.
Book cover for "Tamara de Lempicka" by Patrick Bade. The cover includes the painting by the artist titled " The green Turban" which depicts two women leaning against one another.
Book cover of " Mary Cassatt : a life" by Nancy Mowll Mathews. The cover includes a self-portrait of the artist in a white dress lounging against a sofa with a beige background.
Book cover of "Modern women artists in the Nordic countries, 1900-1960" by Kerry Greaves. It includes an abstract experssionist painting in various jewel tones and alternating white and burgandy text and background beneath the painting.
Book cover for " Sturtevant : Warhol Marilyn" by Patricia Lee. The cover includes the famous portrait of Marilyn on a white background with black text.
Book cover for "Women artists of the harlem renaissance" edited by Helen Hirschke. It features an art noveau- style figure in black and white with text above in ombres of red and black.