Look like a Lady: Five Visual Tropes of Womanhood and How to See Ourselves Differently

Five Visual Tropes That Have Defined Womanhood—and the Art History That Redefines It

Images tell powerful stories about how women should look and act. And whether we notice them or not, those stories shape what women believe they're allowed to be.

In Look like a Lady, art historian Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt uses personal narrative and art history to uncover five limiting visual tropes that have quietly formed us:

● Venus: the idealized body defined by the male gaze
● Vessel: an empty container w...