Foreward / Linda Nochlin -- Introduction / Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal, Sue Scott -- Louise Bourgeois: Intensity and influence / Helaine Posner -- Nancy Spero: Radical history painter / Helaine Posner -- Elizabeth Murray: fractious formalist / nancy Princenthal -- Marina Abramovic / Sue Scott -- Judy Pfaff: Storming the white cube / Nancy Princenthal -- Janny Holzer: language lessons / Nancy Princenthal -- Cindy Sherman: the polemics of play / Eleanor Heartney -- Kiki Smith: a view from the inside out / Eleanor Heartney -- Ann Hamilton: The poetics of place / Helaine Posner -- Shirin Neshat: living between cultures / Eleanor Heartney -- Ellen Gallagher: mapping the unmentionable / Eleanor Heartney -- Dana Schutz: the elephant in the living room / Sue Scott