Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology

Response to Nochlin. Three main differences from Nochlin: They also believe that art doesn't reflect women's lives but constructs a stereotype. They believe woman is always defined as being opposite of men. Women have always been present, but used to define what male creativity is.
 * Draws on Marxism, semiotics, psychoanalysis
 * Radical stance as opposed to Nochlin's equal-rights feminism
 * rather than thinking about patriarchy in terms of institutional exclusions they emphasise ideology
 * refuse words and phrases such as 'woman' and 'woman artist' in their new AH. this only further suggests playing into the same history
 * They claim that even if women are given the same rights and opportunities as men sexism will persist
 * It isn't that patriarchy erects obstacles but society is founded on sexist structure
 * Artwork is read as being feminist
 * Marxist in that they believe histories are always written from a particular political perspective. Art history is always ideological