Homosociality and erotics in Italian Renaissance portraiture / Patricia Simons -- The ideology of feminine 'virtue' : the vestal virgin in French eighteenth-century allegorical portraiture / Kathleen Nicholson -- Sovereign bodies : the reality of status in seventeenth-century Dutch portraiture / Joanna Woodall -- Medical men 1780-1820 / Ludmilla Jordanova -- Photographic likeness / John Gage -- Photographic portraiture in central India in the 1980s and 1990s / Christopher Pinney -- She's got the look! Eighteenth-century female portrait painters and psychology of a potentially 'dangerous employment' / Angela Rosenthal -- Inscribing alterity : transactions of self and other in Miró self-portraits / David Lomas -- Kahnweiler's Picasso ; Picasso's Kahnweiler / Marcia Pointin -- Rembrandt / Genet / Derrida / Sarah Wilson -- Facing the past and present : the National Portrait Gallery and the search for 'authentic' portraiture / Paul Barlow -- The portrait's dispersal : concepts of representation and subjectivity in contemporary portraiture / Ernst Van Alphen -- Pre-figured features : a view from the Papua New Guinea highlands / Marilyn Strathern.