A Sisterhood of Sculptors

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Feminine Professionalism in Boston and Rome

1 The Boston-Rome Nexus

2 Neoclassicism in Cosmopolitan Rome

3 “A Woman Artist Is an Object of Peculiar Odium”

Part II: Women Sculptors and the Politics of Rome

4 Rome in the Colonial Imagination

5 Reimagining Italy

Part III: The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Suffrage Debates

6 Antislavery Sermons in Stone

7 Women Sculptors, Suffrage, and the Public Stage

Postscript

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

“Offers a new contribution to the study of American artists working in international contexts, to the body of scholarship on American sculpture and its connections with political history, and to the discussion of gender in art history.”

—Emily C. Burns, CAA.Reviews