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Table of Contents: “…Threads in the civil rights quilt /…”

Table of Contents: “…A pattern for a nursing quilt /…”

Table of Contents: “…A home in the promised land -- Settling in -- Getting by -- Fire and wind -- Sunup to sundown -- Pioneer women -- Blizzards and grasshoppers -- Sociable settlers -- The storm -- Hard times -- Grace grows up -- The quilt lady of Nebraska.…”

Table of Contents: “…Art and the position of women in society -- From prehistory to the Roman Empire -- Women of Crete -- Women of the Ancient Near East -- Women of Greece -- Women of Rome -- The Medieval world -- Women peasants -- Women of the landed nobility -- Courtly love and Christian dogma -- Nunneries -- Medieval manuscript illuminators -- Urban working women -- Secular manuscript illuminators -- Medieval embroidery -- Opus Anglicanum -- Introduction to the Renaissance era: 1400-1780 -- Peasants and lower-class women -- Women of the upper classes -- Women and the Reformation -- Urban working-class women -- Painters in Italy: 1550-1650 -- Sofonisba Anguissola -- Artemisia Gentileschi -- Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish artists -- Clara Peeters -- Judith Leyster -- Maria Sibylla Merian -- Rachel Ruysch -- Eighteenth-century Italian and French painters -- Rosalba Carriera -- Anne Vallayer-Coster -- Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun -- Neoclassical painters and sculptors -- Angelica Kauffman -- The "White Marmorian Flock" -- Harriet Hosmer -- Edmonia Lewis -- Introduction to the modern era -- Working women and the industrial revolution -- Women's rights and the feminist movement -- Painters in France: 1850-1900 -- Rosa Bonheur -- Berthe Morisot -- Mary Cassatt -- Paula Modersohn-Becker -- Early twentieth-century artists -- Käthe Kollwitz -- Russian women artists of the avant-garde -- Natalia Goncharova -- Liubov Popova -- Sonia Delaunay -- Women of Surrealism -- Meret Oppenheim -- Remedios Varo -- Dorothea Tanning -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Women photographers before World War II -- Julia Margaret Cameron -- Gertrude Käsebier -- Imogen Cunningham -- Dorothea Lange -- Margaret Bourke-White -- American pieced quilts -- Artists of the post-World War II era -- Germaine Richier -- Barbara Hepworth -- Helen Frankenthaler -- Louise Nevelson -- Agnes Martin -- Bridget Riley -- Eva Hesse -- Louise Bourgeois -- Afro-American artists -- Bettye Saar -- Faith Ringgold -- Audrey Flack.…”

Table of Contents: “…The Harriet Powers Pictorial Quilts / Marie Jeanne Adams -- 2. Willie Mae Ford Smith of St. …”