Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
'Gender is a topic only rarely and only quite recently addressed in the study of early Netherlandish art. Andrea Pearson's fascinating book throws down the gauntlet, demanding that we think more deeply about
issues of intention and artistic format. In a series of well chosen case studies, Pearson charts the gendering of books of hours (female) and religious portrait diptychs (male) images in the Burgundian Netherlands of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. This is a highly stimulating and beautifully researched book that should be of great interest