Download or read book The "f" Word: A Content Analysis of "female" Artists in Art History Textbooks written by Deborah Zoe Gustlin and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The number of women enrolled in college increasingly outpaces the number of men. In prominent art history textbooks, however, identified men artists far outnumber women. Feminist-inspired inquiry has highlighted this imbalance and historical content analysis of art history textbooks has shown small increases in inclusion of women artists over the last 80 years. In bringing such analysis up-to-date, this study's research questions were: To what extent are female artists represented in six widely used art history textbooks? What is the ratio of the inclusion of female artists compared with male artists? The textbooks were coded by enumerating plates and index mentions. During the coding process, additional categories of analysis beyond gender emerged: artists of color and artists of other than Euro-American ancestry. Overall, representations of women artists, whether in terms of artist-identified plates or mentions in indexes, account for only one-fifth of the total, a four-to-one ratio. Reasons for this disparity are examined as are the pedagogical implications of relying predominantly on male and Euro-American artists in teaching increasingly diverse college populations. Recommendations focus on the importance of revising curricula, textbooks, and pedagogical approaches in light of these findings."--Abstract, p. 1.