From the Book - First American edition.
Part one: paving the way c.1500-c.1900. Painting herself into the canon ; Looking to a heroic past ; From Realism to Spiritualism
Part two: what made art modern c.1870-c.1950. War, identity and the Paris avant-garde ; The aftermath of the First World War ; Modernism in the Americas ; War and the rise of new methods and media
Part three: postwar women c.1949-c.1970. The great era of experimentalism ; Political change and new abstractions ; The body ; Weaving new traditions
Part four: taking ownership 1970-2000. The era of feminism ; The 1980s ; The 1990s ; Radical change in Britain
Part five: still writing 2000-present. Decolonising narratives and reworking traditions ; Figuration in the twenty-first century ; The 2020s