Picador / Pan Books, 1979. Faded and creased spine, with fade marks on front cover, several small chips/scrapes to spine, vertical crease in the middle of back cover, green pen mark on vertical page edges, other signs of secondhand wear.

If men and women are equally capable of genius, why have there been no female artists of the stature of Leonardo, Titian or Poussin? In seeking to answer this question, Germaine Greer introduces us to major but underestimated figures in the history of Western painting--Angelica Kauffmann, Natalia Goncharova, Suzanne Valadon, Berthe Morisot, Kathe Kollwitz - and produces a brilliantly incisive and richly illustrated study. She explains the obstacles as both external and surmountable and internal and insurmountable in the race for achievement...