“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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-fd97e5ec33004073ae8195df8c2e528d2022-12-22T02:58:51ZengUniversity of Minnesota Libraries PublishingPanorama2471-68392022-06-0181https://doi.org/10.24926/24716839.13070“The Sunflower’s Bloom of Women’s Equality”: New Contexts for Mary Cassatt’s <em>La Femme au tournesol</em>Nicole GeorgopulosFar 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. https://journalpanorama.org/article/the-sunflowers-bloom/ 8.1feminist artmary cassattmaterial culturenicole georgopulosnineteenth-century artvisual culture |
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| title | “The Sunflower’s Bloom of Women’s Equality”: New Contexts for Mary Cassatt’s <em>La Femme au tournesol</em> |
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| title_short | “The Sunflower’s Bloom of Women’s Equality”: New Contexts for Mary Cassatt’s <em>La Femme au tournesol</em> |
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