Amy Eisen Cislo is a senior lecturer in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Cislo also directs the Transgender Spectrum Conference.
Unwanted Advances is a provocative, if frustrating, read.
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The first woman to paint the official portrait of a U.S. president, Greta Kempton also painted Cabinet officials, governors, senators, the head of the Atomic Energy Commission, two Postmasters General, a Supreme Court justice, several university presidents, and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. But what would have happened if she had painted a self-portrait?