Women's art has often been seen as secondary or has gone unrecognized altogether. Mobilizing contemporary feminist thinking, Marsha Meskimmon questions why this should be so and what it would take for us to realize the extent of women's extraordinary contribution to the arts.
Examining work by a wide range of women artists from different cultures and historical periods, Women Making Art asks why women's work has been seen as secondary, and mobilizes contemporary feminist thinking to reconsider how and why women have made art.