Old Mistresses

Rozsika Parker (1945-2010) was a writer and critic in Art History & Psychoanalysis and a psychotherapist. Her books include Framing Feminism: Art and the Women's Movement 1970-1985 (with Griselda Pollock), Torn in Two: The Experience of Maternal Ambivalence and The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine (I.B.Tauris new edition, 2010). Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History, University of Leeds, UK. Her books include Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art and Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum (2007). She is editor of Conceptual Odysseys: Passages to Cultural Analysis (2009) and, with Antony Bryant, of Digital and Other Virtualities (2010, both I.B.Tauris).

• Preface by Rozsika Parker and Griselda PollockA Lonely Preface to the New Edition by Griselda PollockAcknowledgments1 Critical Stereotypes: the essential feminine or how essential is femininity2 Crafty women and the hierarchy of the arts3 ‘God’s little artist’4 Painted ladies5 Back to the twentieth century: femininity and and feminismConclusionNotesSelect bibliography and further readingIndex

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