Material artifacts as context and content:
Corrin, Lisa, ed. 1994. Mining the museum: An installation. [by Fred Wilson]. Exhibition companion book. The New Press.

Jones, Ann Rosalind, and Peter Stallybrass. 2000. Renaissance clothing and the materials of memory. Cambridge University Press.
See especially Chapter 2, "Composing the Subject: Making Portraits," pp. 34-58.

Discursive Dress. 1994. Exhibition catalogue. Sheboygan, WI: John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

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Representation and (re)cognition - the cognitive processes of portraiture:
Brilliant, Richard. 1991. Portraiture. Harvard University Press.
See especially Introduction, pp. 7-21.

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General, insightful, historiographic material on portrait-making and -viewing:
Woodall, Joanna, ed. 1997. Portraiture: Facing the subject. Manchester University Press.
See especially Introduction, pp. 1-25.

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Just for fun (almost), to set the stage and break the ice:
"The Guerrilla Girls'" 1998. Bedside companion to the history of Western art. Penguin Books.

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And then, for a more serious introduction to some of the gender-related representational, political, and art historical issues:
Banta, Martha. 1987. Imaging American Women: Idea and Ideals in Cultural History. Columbia University Press.

Betterton, Rosemary, ed. 1987. Looking On: Images of Femininity in the Visual Arts and Media. Pandora Press.

Bordo, Susan. 1993. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. University of California Press.

Braidotti, Rosi. 1994. Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory. Columbia University Press.

Broude, Norma, ed. 1982. Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany. Westview Press.

Broude, Norma and Mary D. Garrard, eds. 1992. Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History. HarperCollins Publishers.

Broude, Norma and Mary D. Garrard, eds. 2005. Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History After Postmodernism. University of California Press.

Caviness, Madeline H. 2001. Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages: Sight, Spectacle, and Scopic Economy. The Middle Ages Series. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Chadwick, Whitney. 2002 (3rd edition). Women, Art and Society. Thames & Hudson.

Conn, Marie A. & McGuire, Therese, eds. 2003. Balancing the scales: An examination of the manipulation and transformation of symbolic concepts of women. University Press of America.
This is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that hopes to raise awareness of the historical perception of women before and after the patriarchal revolution.

Ferguson, Margaret, Maureen Quilligan, and Nancy J. Vickers, eds. 1986. Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe. Chicago University Press.

Frueh, Joanna, Laurie Fierstein, and Judith Stein, eds. 1999. Picturing the Modern Amazon. Exhib. cat. New Museum of Contemporary Art and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.

Garber, Marjorie. 1993. Vested interests: Cross-dressing & cultural anxiety. HarperCollins Publishers.

Garber, Marjorie and Nancy J. Vickers, eds. 2003. The Medusa Reader (Culture Work). Routledge.

Hooks, bell. 1995. Art on my mind: Visual politics. The New Press.

Hooks, bell. 1994. Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations. Routledge.

Huneault, Kristina. 2002. Difficult Subjects: Working Women and Visual Culture, Britain 1880-1914. British Art and Visual Culture Since 1750, New Readings. Ashgate Publishing Limited.

Jones, Amelia, ed. 2003. The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. Routledge.

Meyers, Marian, ed. 1999. Mediated Women: Representations in Popular Culture. Hampton Press.

Neuman, Shirley and Glennis Stephenson, eds. 1993. ReImagining Women: Representations of Women in Culture. University of Toronto Press.

Nochlin, Linda. 1999. Representing women. Thames & Hudson.
See especially Introduction, pp. 6-33.

Pollock, Griselda. 1999. Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Art's Histories. Revisions and Critical Studies in the History and Theory of Art. Routledge.

Pollock, Griselda. 2003. Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity, and the Histories of Art. Routledgeclassics.

Warner, Marina. 1985. Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form. Atheneum.

Willis, Deborah and Carla Williams. 2002. The Black Female Body: A Photographic History. Temple University Press.

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Examples of more conventionally laid-out gender-based exhibitions and catalogues, focusing on "categories" of women rather than on thematically-construed modes of representation:
Kalavrezou, Ioli, ed. 2003. Byzantine Women and Their World. Exhib. cat. Harvard University Art Museums/ Yale University Press.

MacLeod, Catharine and Julia Marciari Alexander, eds. 2001. Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II. Exhib. cat. National Portrait Gallery Yale Center for British Art.

Muses, madonnas and maidens: 500 years of the female image in east and west. 2001. Tokyo Fuji Art Museum.

Russell, H. Diane and Bernadine Barnes. 1990. Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints. Exhib. cat. National Gallery of Art.

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Fiction for the classroom:
Chevalier, Tracy. 2000. Girl with a pearl earring. Dutton.
Although the book centers on Vermeer, it is useful in raising questions about artists and representations of women.

Vreeland, Susan. 2002 The passion of Artemesia. Viking.

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Looking at art and artifact:
-----. 1979. "Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Images of Women." Cambridge Documentary Films.

Berger, John. 1972. Ways of seeing. Penguin Books.

Dewey, John. 1934. Art as experience. Perigee Books.

Ehrenworth, Mary. 2003. Looking to write: Students writing through the arts. Heinemann.

Elkins, James. 1996. The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing. Harvest Books. Harcourt, Inc.

Flood, James, Shirley Brice Heath, and Diane Lapp. 2005 [1997]. Handbook of Research On Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.

Goldberg, Merryl Ruth. 1997. Arts and learning: An integrated approach to teaching and learning in multicultural and multilingual settings. Longman.

Goldberg, Merryl Ruth and Ann Phillips, eds. 1992. Arts as education. Harvard Education Publishing Group.

Greene, Maxine. 1995. Releasing the imagination: Essays on education, the arts, and social change. Jossey-Bass.

Greene, Maxine. 2001. Variations on a blue guitar: The Lincoln Center Institute lectures on aesthetic education. Teachers College Press.

Kilbourne, Jean. 1986. "Still Killing Us Softly." Cambridge Documentary Films.

Moore, David M., and Francis M. Dwyer, eds. 1994. Visual Literacy: A Spectrum of Visual Learning. Educational Technology Publications.

Perkins, David. 1994. The intelligent eye: Learning to think by looking at art. Getty Center for Education in the Arts.

Richards, Janet C. and Michael C. McKenna, eds. 2003. Integrating Multiple Literacies in K-8 Classrooms: Cases, Commentaries, and Practical Applications. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.

Sanders-Bustle, Lynn ed. 2003. Image, Inquiry, and Transformative Practice: Engaging Learners in Creative and Critical Inquiry Through Visual Representation, Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education, vol. 203. Peter Lang.

Shuh, John Hennigar, "Teaching yourself to teach with objects" in The Educational Role of the Museum (Leicester Readers in Museum Studies), ed. Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, 1999 (80-91).

Stafford, Barbara Maria. 1996. Good Looking: Essays on the virtue of Images. MIT Press.

Weitzman, Lenore J. and Diane Rizzo. 1974. Images of Males and Females in Elementary School Textbooks. National Organization for Women Legal Defense Fund.

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Gender and Museums
Glaser, Jane R. and Artemis A Zenetou, eds. 1994. Gender Perspectives: Essays on Women in Museums. Smithsonian Institution Press.

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The Museum As Looking and Learning Space
Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean. 2000. Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture. Routledge.

Putnam, James. 2002. Art and Artifact: The Museum As Medium. Thames & Hudson.

Vergo, Peter, ed. 1997. The New Museology. Reaktion Books.

Walsh-Piper, Kathleen. 2003. Image to Word: Art and Creative Writing. Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.

Weil, Stephen. 2002. Making Museums Matter. Smithsonian Institution Press.

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