Addressing the Other Woman

Kimberly Lamm is Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University.

• List of figuresIntroduction: addressing the other womanPart I: Writing the 'I' otherwise: telegraphing black feminism in the work of Adrian Piper and Angela Davis 1 Adrian Piper’s textual address2 Letters from an imaginary enemy, Angela DavisPart II: Typing the poetry of monsters: Nancy Spero and Valerie Solanas write aggression 3 Writing the drives in Nancy Spero’s Codex Artaud4 Valerie Solanas’ SCUM Manifesto and the texts of aggression Part III: Hieroglyphs of maternal desire: the collaborative texts of Mary Kelly and Laura Mulvey5 Rewriting maternal femininity in Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document6 Feminist desires and collective reading in the work of Laura MulveyConclusionBibliographyIndex

'In looking at the decade that occupies a unique place in the ongoing history of the transnational feminist movement, [Lamm has] uncovered hitherto unassessed materials and proposed insightful new readings in the archives of feminism, whilst also presenting us with an archival rearrangement that produces new objects with which to think about art history.'Francesco Ventrell, Art History