Far from it, they use the observation as a way to praise her

Finally, people are getting into accepting woman artists having a "man's job" of painting and not shaming them or secluding them from it

Social transgression (a woman acting like a man) was figured as sexual transgression

this reminds me of the readings and how the hand was considered to be masculine and manly. In the lecture video we talked about painting being a 'man's job' because it required manual labor

Can't highlight so I am using page notes again

but because her miming of the man's sexuality threatened the coherence of a sociosexual order"

Ironic that men can feel threatened when someone else comes along 'mocking' them and they lose confidence. Men were doing this to women through their paintings and the gaze

Whose agility and grip express the women's power to act upon the world

This was also mentioned last week about the sculpture created by de'Rossi. You can see the strong grip that was created on the bench she is sitting on, when she is trying to rip the sheet from the man running away.

I also wasn't able to highlight.

One is the cultural habit of seeing woman as object-to-be-looked-at, the site of scopophilic pleasure

We talked about this last week and basically how women were objects that we to be looked at. In a way it is like they are saying "women should be seen, not heard" in a way.

By the sound of this sentence, it sounds like they put women on these unstable bases, to make women seem 'unstable'.

Am I reading that right. Do nuns have more power/freedom compared to other women?

I had to look up this word. If anyone else is wondering the definition...

in a pretentious or showy way designed to impress

From https://languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en/

Just because they gave women the chance to get an education doesn't mean they were equal to men. Women weren't allowed to express themselves in a sense of art. In the Chapter reading, I read that most women had their husband's sign off on their paintings in order from the to be accepted and gain commission and praise on their artistic abilities and work.