Patricia Mainardi
Patricia "Pat" Mainardi is a retired professor of Art History and Women's and Gender Studies at the City University of New York.
Career and activism
Pat Mainardi was part of the radical feminist group Redstockings. In 1970, she contributed the essay, "The Politics of Housework," to the anthology Sisterhood is Powerful. It had originally been published by Redstockings earlier that year.She was a professor of Art History and Women's and Gender Studies at the City University of New York.
Mainardi has also taught at Harvard University, Princeton University and Williams College. In the early 1990s, Mainardi was the first president of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art.
She was a member of the Council of Field Editors for the journal caa.reviews from 1998 to 2004.
Her image is included in the 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.