Beyond the Frame

..."a vitally important historical reconfiguration of gender, class and race as contradictory and troubling forces in women's struggle for participation and self-definition within the imperial movement. This book will become a benchmark of feminist scholarship, realigning women's history with the central interpretations of the 19th century." -Professor Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds "Deborah Cherry provides an eloquent history of the crucial connections between Victorian women artists, the new visual culture and nineteenth-century social struggles over women's rights. New readings of gender and urban space, the public reception of Harriet Hosmer's ZENOBIA, and the cultural work of British women in Algeria make this an important contributions not merely to art history, but to cultural history generally--Whitney Chadwick, San Francisco State University." "Deborah Cherry's excellent new book, "Beyond the Frame, may be seen as a measure of the distance feminist art history has traveled over the past twenty years. As someone who was first inspired by Cherry's work in the late 1980s, I am fascinated and sincerely impressed by the way i which the daring, polemical textual analyses that then characterized her work are now but one strand in what is a wonderfully rich tapestry of discursive analysis, social an cultural history, attentin to matters of textual production and reception, and an astute engagement of the latest postcolonial theorizing...Cherry remains an exemplary and inspiring practicioner.." -"NWSA Journal Spring 2003