The artist, the critic and the academic: feminism's problematic relationship with 'Theory'/ Janet Wolff -- Preaching to the converted? 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 A. Walsh -- Exhibiting strategies / Debbie Duffin -- The situation of women curators / Elizabeth A. 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 -- 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 pornagraphers? / Naomi Salaman -- Just jamming: Irigaray, painting and psychoanalysis / Christine Battersby -- Border crossing: womanliness, body, repre-sentation / Hilary Robinson -- (P)age 49: 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 ... / Ann Newdigate -- Sewn constructions / Dinah Prentice -- Penelope and the unravelling of history / Ruth Scheuing.

La mujer ha sido durante mucho tiempo tratada por los artistas como objeto de representación, pero su contribución como creadora de arte es poco reconocida. Aunque las mujeres artistas ya no están obligadas a trabajar en el anonimato ni a aceptar seudónimos masculinos, hace relativamente poco, en 1989, las Guerrilla Girls salieron a las calles de Nueva York para preguntarse si las mujeres tienen que estar desnudas para entrar en el Metropolitan Museum. En este libro, la autora explora la vida y la obra de más de cincuenta de las más destacadas artistas femeninas de todos los ámbitos desde el siglo xv hasta la actualidad, entre ellas, Artemisia Gentileschi, Georgia O'Keeffe y Louise Bourgeois.

Catalog of a travelling exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C., El Museo del Barrio, New York City, N.Y., Galería Caribe, San Juan, P.R. in 1988.

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