Table of Contents

Part 1 Between theory and practice: The artist, the critic and the academic - feminism's problematic relationship with theory, Janet Wolff; post-feminism? - feminist art publishing in the 1980s, Frances Borzello; the sphinx contemplating Napoleon - black women artists in Britain, Gilane Tawadros; reading between the lines - the imprinted spaces of Sutapa Biswas, Moira Roth; modernism, art education and sexual difference, Pen Dalton; eyewitnesses, not spectators, activists, not academics - feminist pedagogy and women's creativity, Val Walsh. Part 2 Curatorship and the art world: exhibiting strategies, Debbie Duffin; the situation of women curators, Elizabeth MacGregor; afterthoughts on curating - the subversive stitch, Pennina Barnett; the cult of the individual, Fran Cottell; on women dealers in the art world, Maureen Paley. Part 3 On the question of censorship: where do we draw the line? - an investigation into the censorship of art, Anna Douglas; women's movements - feminism, censorship and performance art, Sally Dawson; why have there been no great women pornographers?, Naomi Salaman. Part 4 The engagement with psychoanalysis: just jamming - Irigaray, painting and psychoanalysis, Christine Battersby; border crossings - womanliness, body, representation, Hilary Robinson; on the subject of history, Mary Kelly; models of painting practice - too much body?, Joan Key; text and textiles - weaving across the borderlines, Janis Jefferies; kinda art, sorta tapestry - tapestry as shorthand access to the definitions, languages, institutions, attitudes, hierarchies, ideologies, constructions, classifications, histories, prejudices and other bad habits of the West, Ann Newdigate; sewn constructions, Dinah Prentice; Penelope and the unravelling of history, Ruth Scheuing.