Mary D. Garrard is Professor of Art at American University. She is the author of "Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art "(1989) and coeditor, with Norma Broude, of "Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany "(1982); "The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History "(1992); and "The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact "(1994).