The Journal of American Culture, December 1st, 2005
Eve's Daughter/Modern Woman: A Mural by Mary Cassatt Sally Webster. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004.
In her introduction to this extremely wellwritten book, the author outlines the reason for the title and her frame of reference very clearly: "For Cassatt and other enlightened women, Eve was a transgressor who broke with male authority." Having said this, Professor Webster has to tread the difficult waters of the place of women, the different roles and interpretations that could be, and were, attached to Eve, and how both the artist and her interpreters negotiated the s...
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