External links
- Mainardi, Patricia Faculty profile at the CUNY Graduate Center
- The Politics of Housework
Patricia "Pat" Mainardi (born 1942 [1] ) is a retired professor of Art History and Women's and Gender Studies at the City University of New York. [2]
Pat Mainardi was part of the radical feminist group Redstockings. In 1970, she contributed the essay, "The Politics of Housework," [3] to the anthology Sisterhood is Powerful . It had originally been published by Redstockings earlier that year. [4]
She was a professor of Art History and Women's and Gender Studies at the City University of New York . [5]
Mainardi has also taught at Harvard University, Princeton University and Williams College. [6] In the early 1990s, Mainardi was the first president of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA). [7]
She was a member of the Council of Field Editors for the journal caa.reviews from 1998 to 2004. [8]
Her image is included in the 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson. [9]
Mainardi received the 1989 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the College Art Association for her book Art and Politics of the Second Empire: The Universal Expositions of 1855 and 1867. [10] In 2016, the French government awarded her a knighthood, as a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, citing both her academic scholarship and her feminist activism. [11]
