A ROOM OF OUR OWN: CREATING A FEMINIST SPACE
In 1974, I was an undergraduate art history student at Melbourne University. Lynne Cook was a year ahead of me. We were both frustrated by the lack of women artists mentioned in our courses. Two key texts framed our thinking.
One was the 1971 essay by American art historian Linda Nochlin, . Nochlin argued that the expectations against women seriously pursuing art, the restrictions on educating women as artists, and ‘the entire romantic, elitist, individual-glorifying, and