Table of Contents for
Shifting Priorities
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Pro/visions, Re/visions, Tele/visions
I. PRO/VISIONS
1. Vermeer and the Balance of Destiny
2. Political Iconography in a Painting by Jan Miense Molenaer
3. Pendants and Meaning Making in the Paintings of Gerard ter Borch
II. RE/VISIONS
4. Jan Steen's Formulation of the Dissolute Household: Sources and Meanings
5. "There's No Place like Home": Jan Steen and Domestic Ideology
6. Jan Steen and the Invention of the Modern Woman
III. TELE/VISIONS
7. Early Netherlandish Bordeeltjes and the Construction of Social "Realities"
8. Domesticating the Peasant Father: The Confluent Ideologies of Gender, Class, and Age in the Prints of Adriaen van Ostade
9. Vermeer's Women: Changing Paradigms in Midcareer
Notes
Bibliography
Index