Publications by group members on issues around gender in the humanities include the following:
Difference and Excess in Contemporary Art: The Visibility of Women's Practice, edited by Gill Perry; Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004 ISBN 1405112026.
This thought-provoking book explores the increasing visibility of women's art in Britain, Europe and America. Written by a group of prestigious art historians and critics, it locates contemporary women's art within a matrix of overlapping historical, cultural and post-colonial frameworks.
Artists whose work is considered include Martha Rosler and Kara Walker from North America, Alice Maher from the Republic of Ireland, Lubaina Himid, Christine Borland, Sarah Lucas, Cornelia Parker, Gillian Wearing and Rachel Whiteread from Britain, and the international performance group, moti roti. The book also features specially-commissioned interviews with some of these artists. Diverse media are covered, from sculpture and painting through to photography, installations, video and performance.
Cover image: The Maybe: a performance conceived and performed by Tilda Swinton within an installation by Cornelia Parker at the Serpentine Gallery, 1995
Femininity and Masculinity in Eighteenth Century Art and Culture by Gill Perry and Michael Rossington, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1994 ISBN 0-7190-4228-3
Focusing on the visual arts and written texts, this book explores the nature of femininity and masculinity in 18th-century Britain and France. The activities and collective conditions of women as producers of art and culture are investigated, together with analysis of representation and the ways in which it might be gendered. This illustrated book should make an important contribution to debates on representation, constructions of sexuality and women as producers.
Topics covered include: the artist Angelica Kauffman; constructions of femininity and masculinity in contemporary travel-writing; feminine portraiture in the work of Joshua Reynolds; the writer and poet Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; women artists and the French Revolution; the writer Mary Wollstonecraft; the female role in the architecture of Robert Adam; and the cult of male beauty in the studio of David.
Cover image: Angelica Kauffaman, Zeuxius Selecting Models for his painting of Helen of Troy