'''Patricia''' "'''Pat'''" '''Mainardi''' (born 1942<ref name="Patricia2">{{Cite web |title=Oral history interview with Patricia Mainardi and Irene Peslikis, 1972 {{!}} Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution |url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-patricia-mainardi-and-irene-peslikis-12140 |access-date=2025-09-07 |website=www.aaa.si.edu |language=en}}</ref>) is a retired professor of Art History and Women's and Gender Studies at the [[City University of New York]].<ref name="Patricia">{{Cite web |title=Mainardi, Patricia |url=https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/patricia-mainardi |access-date=2025-09-07 |website=www.gc.cuny.edu |language=en}}</ref>
==Career and activism== Pat Mainardi was part of the radical feminist group [[Redstockings]]. In 1970, she contributed the essay, "The Politics of Housework,"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/polhousework.html|title=The Politics of Housework|author=Mainardi, Pat Mainardi|date=1970|website=cwluherstory.com|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060811203520/http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/polhousework.html|archivedate=2006-08-11}}</ref> to the anthology ''[[Sisterhood is Powerful]]''. It had originally been published by Redstockings earlier that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/polhousework.html|title=The Politics of Housework|author=Mainardi, Pat Mainardi|date=1970|website=cwluherstory.com|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060811203520/http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/polhousework.html|archivedate=2006-08-11}}</ref>
She was a professor of Art History and Women's and Gender Studies at the [[Graduate Center, CUNY|City University of New York]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mainardi, Patricia |url=https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/patricia-mainardi |access-date=2025-09-07 |website=www.gc.cuny.edu |language=en}}</ref>
Mainardi has also taught at [[Harvard University]], [[Princeton University]] and [[Williams College]].<ref name="Love">{{cite book|last1=Love|first1=Barbara J.|title=Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975|date=2006|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=9780252097478|page=294|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HRouCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA294|accessdate=September 18, 2016|language=en}}</ref> In the early 1990s, Mainardi was the first president of the [[Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art]] (AHNCA).<ref name="AHNCA">{{cite journal|last1=Mansfield|first1=Elizabeth|title=Patricia Mainardi, founder of AHNCA|website=www.19thc-artworldwide.org|date=Summer 2012|volume=11|issue=2|url=http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/summer12/elizabeth-mansfield-patricia-mainardi-founder-of-ahnca|accessdate=September 17, 2016}}</ref>
She was a member of the Council of Field Editors for the journal ''caa.reviews'' from 1998 to 2004.<ref>[http://www.caareviews.org/about/pasteditors Past Editors], ''caa.reviews'', [[College Art Association]]. Accessed September 18, 2016.</ref>
Her image is included in the 1972 poster [[Some Living American Women Artists (collage) |Some Living American Women Artists]] by [[Mary Beth Edelson]].<ref name="SAAM">{{cite web |title=Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/some-living-american-women-artistslast-supper-76377 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=23 January 2022}}</ref>
==Awards== Mainardi received the 1989 [[Charles Rufus Morey]] Book Award from the [[College Art Association]] for her book ''Art and Politics of the Second Empire: The Universal Expositions of 1855 and 1867''.<ref>[http://www.collegeart.org/awards/moreypast CHARLES RUFUS MOREY BOOK AWARD] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108012244/http://www.collegeart.org/awards/moreypast |date=2016-01-08 }}, [[College Art Association]]. Accessed September 18, 2016.</ref> In 2016, the French government awarded her a knighthood, as a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, citing both her academic scholarship and her feminist activism.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wyma |first1=Chloe |title=Patricia Mainardi Receives Knighthood from the French Government |url=https://gcarthistory.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/02/29/france-honors-patricia-mainardi-with-academic-palm-award/ |accessdate=February 29, 2016}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/patricia-mainardi Mainardi, Patricia] Faculty profile at the [[CUNY Graduate Center]] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060811203520/http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/polhousework.html The Politics of Housework]
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