Griselda Pollock Modernity And The Space Of Femininity Summary

In Griselda Pollock’s article Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity, she elaborates on her beliefs that modern art history selectively celebrates normalized gendered stereotypes of females and female artists and their works1. She makes four arguments to support her beliefs based on references to works of art and literary works. The arguments are structured in a way that allows the readers to understand them through long discussions with added evidence from referenced works or personal experience. Her first argument was that women are not things to be added under categories such as sexuality, modernism or mondernity1. There are differences between males and female throughout history such as social and economic ones. The inequality of this