1. Introduction: Women in the Frame.- 2. The Reshaping of Society and the Rise of the Avant-Gardes.- 3. Inside and Outside the Frame: The Female Figure as Subject and Artist.- 4. The Politics of Aesthetics and the Woman Question.- 5. From Presence to Absence: Exploiting Female Sexuality in Visual Culture.- 6. A Visual Genealogy: Tracing the Threads as Nodes Within a Network.- 7. Women in the Frame: To Be Concluded.- Index