1. T.J. Clark, ‘Olympia’s Choice,’ in The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers, Princeton University Press, 1984, chapter 2, pp.79–146
2. Griselda Pollock, ‘A Tale of Three Women,’ in Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Art’s Histories, NY: Routledge, 1999, pp.277–306
3. Jennifer Devere Brody, ‘Black Cat Fever: Manifestations of Manet’s Olympia’, Theatre Journal, vol.53, no.1, 2001, pp.95–118
4. Carol Armstrong, ‘Mlle V: Painting and Exhibiting Victorine’ (excerpt) in Manet Manette, Yale UP, 2002, pp.135–159
5. Darcy Grigsby, ‘Still Thinking about Olympia’s Maid,’ Art Bulletin, vol.97, no.4, 2012, pp.430–448
6. Denise Murrell, ‘Olympia in Context,’ in Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet to Matisse, Yale UP, 2016, pp.7–83
7. David Getsy, ‘How to Teach Manet’s Olympia after Transgender Studies’, Art History, vol.45, no.2, April 2022, pp.343–367

Thanks to Claire Bishop for sharing this selection from her syllabus

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