This book provides the reader with a general understanding of women's art history, as well as an appreciation of its most outstanding figures. Traditionally, women have been among the preferred objects of representation in art, while their contributions as art producers have been subordinated to those of men.

It further documents women artists providing readers with an accessible yet rich understanding of leading female artists from the Baroque to the present day.

A publication that focuses on fifty diverse female artists, from Lavinia Fontana and Artemisia Gentileschi to Judy Chicago, Ana Mendieta and Guerrilla Girls to Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman and Louise Bourgeois.