# Patricia Mainardi

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**Patricia** "**Pat**" **Mainardi** (born 1942[1]) is a retired professor of Art History and Women's and Gender Studies at the [City University of New York](/source/City_University_of_New_York).[2]

## Career and activism

Pat Mainardi was part of the radical feminist group [Redstockings](/source/Redstockings). In 1970, she contributed the essay, "The Politics of Housework,"[3] to the anthology *[Sisterhood is Powerful](/source/Sisterhood_is_Powerful)*. It had originally been published by Redstockings earlier that year.[4]

She was a professor of Art History and Women's and Gender Studies at the [City University of New York](/source/Graduate_Center%2C_CUNY).[5]

Mainardi has also taught at [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University), [Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University) and [Williams College](/source/Williams_College).[6] In the early 1990s, Mainardi was the first president of the [Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art](/source/Association_of_Historians_of_Nineteenth-Century_Art) (AHNCA).[7]

She was a member of the Council of Field Editors for the journal *caa.reviews* from 1998 to 2004.[8]

Her image is included in the 1972 poster [Some Living American Women Artists](/source/Some_Living_American_Women_Artists_(collage)) by [Mary Beth Edelson](/source/Mary_Beth_Edelson).[9]

## Awards

Mainardi received the 1989 [Charles Rufus Morey](/source/Charles_Rufus_Morey) Book Award from the [College Art Association](/source/College_Art_Association) for her book *Art and Politics of the Second Empire: The Universal Expositions of 1855 and 1867*.[10] 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.[11]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Patricia2_1-0)** ["Oral history interview with Patricia Mainardi and Irene Peslikis, 1972 | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution"](https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-patricia-mainardi-and-irene-peslikis-12140). *www.aaa.si.edu*. Retrieved 2025-09-07.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Patricia_2-0)** ["Mainardi, Patricia"](https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/patricia-mainardi). *www.gc.cuny.edu*. Retrieved 2025-09-07.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Mainardi, Pat Mainardi (1970). ["The Politics of Housework"](https://web.archive.org/web/20060811203520/http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/polhousework.html). *cwluherstory.com*. Archived from [the original](https://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/polhousework.html) on 2006-08-11.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Mainardi, Pat Mainardi (1970). ["The Politics of Housework"](https://web.archive.org/web/20060811203520/http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/polhousework.html). *cwluherstory.com*. Archived from [the original](https://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/polhousework.html) on 2006-08-11.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Mainardi, Patricia"](https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/patricia-mainardi). *www.gc.cuny.edu*. Retrieved 2025-09-07.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Love_6-0)** Love, Barbara J. (2006). [*Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975*](https://books.google.com/books?id=HRouCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA294). University of Illinois Press. p. 294. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780252097478](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780252097478). Retrieved September 18, 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-AHNCA_7-0)** Mansfield, Elizabeth (Summer 2012). ["Patricia Mainardi, founder of AHNCA"](http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/summer12/elizabeth-mansfield-patricia-mainardi-founder-of-ahnca). *www.19thc-artworldwide.org*. **11** (2). Retrieved September 17, 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** [Past Editors](http://www.caareviews.org/about/pasteditors), *caa.reviews*, [College Art Association](/source/College_Art_Association). Accessed September 18, 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-SAAM_9-0)** ["Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper"](https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/some-living-american-women-artistslast-supper-76377). *Smithsonian American Art Museum*. Retrieved 23 January 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** [CHARLES RUFUS MOREY BOOK AWARD](http://www.collegeart.org/awards/moreypast) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20160108012244/http://www.collegeart.org/awards/moreypast) 2016-01-08 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), [College Art Association](/source/College_Art_Association). Accessed September 18, 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** Wyma, Chloe. ["Patricia Mainardi Receives Knighthood from the French Government"](https://gcarthistory.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/02/29/france-honors-patricia-mainardi-with-academic-palm-award/). Retrieved February 29, 2016.

## External links

- [Mainardi, Patricia](https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/patricia-mainardi) Faculty profile at the [CUNY Graduate Center](/source/CUNY_Graduate_Center)

- [The Politics of Housework](https://web.archive.org/web/20060811203520/http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/polhousework.html)

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