本书聚焦于五十位形形色色的女性艺术家，从Lavinia Fontana 和 Artemisia Gentileschi到Judy Chicago, Ana Mendieta 和 the Guerrilla Girls再到Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman和Louise Bourgeois，让读者对女性创造的艺术史有一个整体的了解，并欣赏这段历史中最杰出的人物。传统上，女性一直是一书中最受青睐的表现对象，而他们作为艺术创作者的贡献却一直从属于男性的贡献。本书记录了这个背景下的女性艺术家，以便读者对从巴洛克到现代的重要女性艺术家有一个易懂和丰富的理解。

Focusing on fifty diverse women artists, from Lavinia Fontana and Artemisia Gentileschi through Judy Chicago, Ana Mendieta and the Guerrilla Girls to Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman and Louise Bourgeois, this book equips the reader with a general understanding of the history of art by women, as well as an appreciation of its most outstanding figures. Traditionally women have been among art’s favoured objects of representation, while their contributions as art producers have been subordinated to those of men. This book documents women artists in context to offer readers an accessible but rich understanding of key female artists from the Baroque to the present day.