Download or read book The Book of Jane written by Jennifer Habel and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Jane is a perceptive, tenacious investigation of gender, authority, and art. Jennifer Habel draws a contrast between the archetype of the lone male genius and the circumscribed, relational lives of women. Habel points repeatedly to discrepancies of scale: the grand arenas of Balanchine, Einstein, and Matisse are set against the female miniature—the dancer’s stockings, the anonymous needlepoint, the diary entry, the inventory of a purse.