In a new publication, “Inventing the Modern,” and a companion exhibition, 14 women who shaped the institution come into definition themselves. By Hilarie M. Sheets This article is part of the ...

While the field was pioneered by a man, Jean-Martin Charcot, in Proudfoot’s sculptures, the hands that manipulate the bodies and minds of the works’ female subjects are women’s — severed ...

The book is also accompanied by the Global Makers: Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts digital humanities project (www.globalmakers.ua.edu), extending and expanding the work begun here. To save ...