This book examines the work of 14 female artists since 1960 with a particular focus on how the artist incorporated gender issues or feminist thought into her respective art form, giving literal expression to the lives and experiences of women over the past 60 years.

List of Illustrations – Preface – Acknowledgements – Deborah J. Johnson/Wendy Oliver: Introduction – Deborah J. Johnson: The Political Dialogic of Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece (1964) – Wendy Oliver: Disappearing Act: Yvonne Rainer, Trio A, and the Feminist Dilemma (1966) – Annie Perkins: The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks (1970s–’80s) – Deborah J. Johnson: The Secularization of the Sacred: Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party and Feminist Spirituality (1974–79) – Maura Reilly: Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills: Reproductive or Transgressive Mimicry? (1977–81) – Loretta Lorance: Zaha Hadid: The Peak Club Competition and the Politics of Architecture (1982) – Phillipa Kafka: Erecting a Statue of an Unknown Goddess in Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife (1991) – Denise Bauer: Jane Campion’s The Piano: A Feminist Tale of Resistance (1993) – Sarah Lansdale Stevenson: Yielding to Multiplicity: The Kaleidoscopic Subject of Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive (1997) – Wendy Oliver: Crystal Pite’s Emergence: Hierarchy, Swarm Intelligence, and Contemporary Ballet (2009) – Christina L. Reitz: A Firm Foundation: Formal Tradition in Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices (2009–2012) – Deborah J. Johnson: Beygency: Power, Sex, and Subjectivity in the Feminist Politics of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter (2013) – Rebecca Peabody: Ephemeral Monumentality and the Art of the Future: Kara Walker’s A Subtlety (2014) – Jennifer Madden: Having Her Pie and Eating It Too: Waitress and the Popular Art of Diane Paulus (2016) – Contributors – Index.