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]