Patricia Mainardi

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]

Career and activism

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]

Awards

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]

References

  1. ^ "Oral history interview with Patricia Mainardi and Irene Peslikis, 1972 | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution". www.aaa.si.edu. Retrieved 2025-09-07.
  2. ^ "Mainardi, Patricia". www.gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2025-09-07.
  3. ^ Mainardi, Pat Mainardi (1970). "The Politics of Housework". cwluherstory.com. Archived from the original on 2006-08-11.
  4. ^ Mainardi, Pat Mainardi (1970). "The Politics of Housework". cwluherstory.com. Archived from the original on 2006-08-11.
  5. ^ "Mainardi, Patricia". www.gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2025-09-07.
  6. ^ Love, Barbara J. (2006). Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975. University of Illinois Press. p. 294. ISBN 9780252097478. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  7. ^ Mansfield, Elizabeth (Summer 2012). "Patricia Mainardi, founder of AHNCA". www.19thc-artworldwide.org. 11 (2). Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  8. ^ Past Editors, caa.reviews, College Art Association. Accessed September 18, 2016.
  9. ^ "Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  10. ^ CHARLES RUFUS MOREY BOOK AWARD Archived 2016-01-08 at the Wayback Machine, College Art Association. Accessed September 18, 2016.
  11. ^ Wyma, Chloe. "Patricia Mainardi Receives Knighthood from the French Government". Retrieved February 29, 2016.
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