“The Sunflower’s Bloom of Women’s Equality”: New Contexts for Mary Cassatt’s <em>La Femme au tournesol</em>
Far from a symbol of restrictive, retrograde femininity (or essentialist fertility), the sunflower and its bearer are beacons of Cassatt’s fervent feminism, a latent symbolism that emerges when the painting is considered within the context of the American suffrage movement.
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University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
2022-06-01
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| Series: | Panorama |
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https://journalpanorama.org/article/the-sunflowers-bloom/
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