Temma Balducci is Associate Professor of Art History at Arkansas State University, USA. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender and visual culture in nineteenth-century French art and in feminist art of the 1970s. Heather Belnap Jensen is Associate Professor of Art History & Curatorial Studies and Women's Studies Faculty Affiliate at Brigham Young University, USA. Jensen specializes in women in post-Revolutionary French culture.

Contents: Introduction, Temma Balducci and Heather Belnap Jensen; Marketing the maternal body in the public spaces of post-Revolutionary Paris, Heather Belnap Jensen; Baroness Hyde de Neuville and the sidewalks of New York, 1807-14, Laura Auricchio; Mediating private and public: Juliette Récamier's salon at L'Abbaye-aux-Bois, Daniel Harkett; The female artist in the public eye: women copyists at the Uffizi, 1770-1859, Sheila Barker; A woman abroad: Emma Brownlow in Brittany, Pamela Gerrish Nunn; Representing the modern woman: the fashion plate reconsidered (1865-75), Justine De Young; 'Excessive Industry': female art historians, popular publishing and professional access, Amy M. von Lintel; Connaisseuses and cocottes: women at the Salon in French caricature, Karen J. Leader; Aller à pied: bourgeois women on the streets of Paris, Temma Balducci; De paseo: tracing women's steps in Madrid's late 19th-century illustrated press, Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo; Women, art history and the public sphere: Emilia Dilke's 18th century, Elizabeth C. Mansfield; Walking the dog à la ville: Louise Abbéma, women and the Parisian landscape, Miranda Mason; The boarders and borders of Emily Carr's London Student Sojourn, Samantha Burton; Separation and erasure: the fate of women artists in Vienna, Julie M. Johnson; Single women, public space and the German Ledigenheim, Erin Eckhold Sassin; Gertrude Stein 'facing both ways', Annalisa Zox-Weaver; Selected bibliography; Index.