Issue 4 essays
Is There a Feminine Aesthetic?
The Straits of Literature and History
Afro-Carolinian "Gullah" Baskets
Weaving
Political Fabrications: Women's Textiles in Five Cultures
Art Hysterical Notions of Progress and Culture
Excerpts from Women and the Decorative Arts
Trapped Women: Two Sister Designers, Margaret and Frances MacDonald
Adelaide Alsop Robineau: Ceramist from Syracuse
Portrait of Frida Kahlo as a Tehuana
Feminism: Has It Changed Art History?
Sewing With My Great-Aunt Leonie Amestoy
The Apron: Status Symbol or Stitchery Sample?
Conversations and Reminiscences
Grandma Sara Bakes
Nepal Hill Art and Women's Traditions
The Equivocal Role of Women Artists in Non-Literate Cultures
Pages from an Asian Notebook
Turkmen Women, Weaving and Cultural Change
Myth and the Sexual Division of Labor
Recitation of the Yoruba Bride
"By the Lakeside There Is an Echo": Towards a History of Women's Traditional Arts
Bibliography