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June 20, 2003
Cecelia F. Klein, ed. Gender in Pre-Hispanic America Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2000. 397 pp.; 118 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (088402279X)

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Feminist art history is now a well-established subfield of Western art history, but until quite recently those studying gender in pre-Columbian art had to rely on a slim bibliography. Today, several contributions focusing on the pre-Columbian and early colonial world have appeared, including one on women throughout the ancient Americas (Karen Bruhns and Karen Stothert, Women in Ancient America [Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999]), another on gender in Mesoamerica (Rosemary Joyce, Gender and Power...