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Article: Women's Work: Textile Art from the Bauhaus.
- Article from:
- The Women's Review of Books
- Article date:
- February 1, 1994
- Author:
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THE BELIEF THAT women as artists, writers, or leaders have been shortchanged in the history books sparked an entire generation of feminist scholarship. It still pervades feminist analysis, psychologically underwrites the hard statistics on women's unequal pay and sex discrimination, and has influenced how even ostensibly apolitical scholars choose their topics, evaluate their subjects and explain their exclusion from serious scholarship. By reclaiming women's cultural production in the Bauhaus school of 1920s Germany, Sigrid Wortmann Weltge's new book, Women's Work, exemplifies the far-reaching influence of this feminist reading of women's history.
The Bauhaus ...