Includes bibliographical references and index.

"October books."

Preface / Carol Armstrong -- Introduction / Catherine de Zegher -- Yvonne Rainer -- "Why have there been no great women artists?" : thirty years after / Linda Nochlin -- Rethinking the artist in the woman, the woman in the artist, and that old chestnut, the gaze / Griselda Pollock -- Mediating generation : the mother-daughter plot / Lisa Tickner -- Responding : questions of perspective / Molly Nesbit -- Martha Rosler -- Duchess of nothing : video space and the "woman artist" / Ewa Lajer-Burcharth -- Drawing drawing : Agnes Martin's infinity / Briony Fer -- The inside is the outside : the relational as the (feminine) space of the radical / Catherine de Zegher -- Responding : dwelling on spaces / Brigid Doherty -- Ann Hamilton -- Hairlines / Tamar Garb -- The she-fox : transference and the "woman artist" / Mignon Nixon -- Difference and disfiguration, or Trockel as mime / Anne Wagner -- Responding : a referendum on theory and feminism / Emily Apter -- Mary Kelly -- Francesca Woodman : a ghost in the house of the "woman artist" / Carol Armstrong -- Taunting and haunting : critical tactics in a "minor" mode / Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- Sally Mann : the price of success / Anne Higonnet -- Responding : scandalous matter : women artists and the crisis of embodiment / Maria Dibattista -- Ellen Gallagher.