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The BGC Department of Research Collections comprises the Library, Study Collection, and Archive, representing a comprehensive range of diverse research resources across a range of media in support of the advanced scholarly study of material culture. Bringing these three entities together aligns the institution’s collection with its approach to research, which challenges traditional boundaries, centers the object, and emphasizes interdisciplinarity. To learn more about each facet of the DRC, click on the links below.

Bard Graduate Center Library is proud to display books from our collection that celebrate Women’s History Month. We hope you enjoy these selections about women in the arts and history!

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The following is a list of books currently on display for the month of March 2017:

The corset : a cultural history / by Valerie Steele GT2075. S74 2001

The dinner party : a symbol of our heritage / written and illustrated by Judy Chicago NK4605. C45 1979

Doin’ it in public: feminism and art at the Woman’s Building / curators, Meg Linton and Sue Maberry ; [editors, Meg Linton, Sue Maberry, and Elizabeth Pulsinelli ; design, Susan Silton] NX180. F4 D6 2011

Eva Zeisel : life, design, and beauty / edited by Pat Kirkham ; executive direction by Pat Moore ; concept and design direction by Pirco Wolfframm ; photographs by Brent Brolin NK1535.Z45 A4 2013

Fear of the dark : ‘race’, gender, and sexuality in the cinema / Lola Young PN1995.9.N4 Y68 1996

The female gaze : women artists making their world / edited by Robert Cozzolino with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Linda Lee Alter, Diane Burko, Anna C. Chave, Robert Cozzolino, Anna Havemann, Joanna Gardner-Huggett, Melanie Anne Herzog, Janine Mileaf, Mey-Yen Moriuchi, Jodi Throckmorton, Michele Wallace N8354. P46 2012

The Gendered object / edited by Pat Kirkham BF692.2 .G466 1996

The great mother : women, maternity, and power in art and visual culture, 1900-2015 / an exhitibition curated by Massimiliano Gioni ; edited by Massimiliano Gioni and Roberta Tenconi N7630 .G74 2015

Hair! : das Haar in der Kunst : Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Ludwig von der Antike bis Warhol, von Tilman Riemenschneider bis Cindy Sherman / herausgegeben von Christine Vogt ; [Autorinnen und Autoren: Meike Allekotte … [et al.]] NX650.H34 H35 2013

Harem : the world behind the veil / Alev Lytle Croutier HQ1170 .C84 1989

A history of the breast / Marilyn Yalom GT498.B74 Y35 1997

Idols of perversity : fantasies of feminine evil in fin-de-siècle culture / Bram Dijkstra NX652 .W6D55 1986

In the courts of religious ladies : art, vision, and pleasure in Italian Renaissance convents / Giancarla Periti N6915 .P47 2016

Isabel Toledo : fashion from the inside out / Valerie Steele and Patricia Mears TT505.T62 S74 2009

The Lonely mirror : Italian perspectives on feminist theory / edited by Sandra Kemp and Paola Bono HQ1190 .L66 1993

Madame Grès : la couture à l’œuvre / [commissariat général, Olivier Saillard ; commissariat scientifique, Sylvie Lécallier, Laurent Cotta] TT502 .M35 2011

Me Jane : masculinity, movies, and women / edited by Pat Kirkham and Janet Thumim PN1995.9.M46 M35 1995

Oedipus and the Devil : witchcraft, sexuality, and religion in early modern Europe / Lyndal Roper HQ1075.5.E85 R66 1994

Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi / Keith Christiansen, Judith W. Mann ND623.G366 A4 2001

Pin-up grrrls : feminism, sexuality, popular culture / Maria Elena Buszek N7630 .B87 2006

Re-framing representations of women : figuring, fashioning, portraiting, and telling in the ‘Picturing’ Women Project / edited by Susan Shifrin NX652.W6 R44 2008

Red velvet seat : women’s writings on the first fifty years of cinema / edited by Antonia Lant, with Ingrid Periz PN1995.9.W6 R43 2006

Schiaparelli & Prada : impossible conversations / Andrew Bolton and Harold Koda ; introduction by Judith Thurman TT505.S3 K63 2012

The spectacle of women : imagery of the suffrage campaign, 1907-14 / Lisa Tickner JN979 .T53 1988

The spectacular modern woman : feminine visibility in the 1920s / Liz Conor P94.5.W65 .C677 2004

Suffragettes to she-devils : women’s liberation and beyond / Liz McQuiston ; foreword by Germaine Greer N72 .F45M35 1997

Vampirettes, wretches, and amazons : western representations of East European women / edited by Valentina Glajar and Domnica Radulescu HQ1590.7 .V36 2004

Veil : modesty, privacy and resistance / Fadwa El Guindi GT2112 .E43 1999

Visualizing women in the Middle Ages : sight, spectacle, and scopic economy / Madeline H. Caviness N7630 .C36 2001

Well-behaved women seldom make history / by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich HQ1121 .U517 2007

Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic / edited by Lois Beck and Guity Nashat HQ1735.2 .W655 2004