On "The Gibson Girls"

The Gibson Girl illustrations played an important role in the cultural negotiation of women's place in society.  In some ways liberated, in some ways completely conventional, they were a kind of fantasy approximation of many of the different demands placed on women at the time.

Take a look:  HERE.

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