Helen Rosenau was part of the influential migration of European Jewish intellectuals who fled to Britain and the United States during the 1930s, bringing with them exciting innovations in art history’s methods. Only Rosenau, however, centred gender in her analysis.
Eighty years after the publication of what she termed ‘my little book’ – Woman in Art: From Type to Personality – a new volume resets Rosenau’s radical text in full colour, framing it between biographical essays—by Adrian Rifkin, Rachel Dickson and Griselda Pollock—and Pollock’s contextual reading of Rosenau’s stunning originality and contemporary relevance to both feminist and Jewish studies. Art historian and Oxford professor Jaś Elsner joins Griselda Pollock to situate Rosenau as feminist, art historian and Jewish studies scholar who plotted the changing concepts of ‘woman’ across anthropology, philosophy, sociology, law, theology, Biblical literature and history through images. 
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