Narrating Art History from a Feminist Revisionist Perspective in Karen Essex’s Leonardo’s Swans and Stealing Athena

Abstract

While there are remarkable feminist literary genres, this research is concerned with one of the American feminist writers who contributed to revising history. Feminist history refers to the re-reading of history from a female perspective. In the past few decades, women have questioned inequalities in their own lives. Now they turn to history to understand the roots of their oppression. They re-examine, revise and re-write history accounts through a new feminist lens.