After reading Chapter 16 of your textbook, please answer the following questions:

1. Lots of artists have depicted women in theaters, seated before mirrors, or otherwise subject to the spectatorial gaze. How did Cassatt’s images differ from most of these?
2. Thomas Eakins was most of all concerned with masculine freedom and American heroism: True or False? Please justify your answer by discussing at least two specific works of art.
3. Why did the author of this chapter, Linda Nochlin, decide to write about these two artists within the same chapter?