All-women art spaces in Europe in the long 1970s

Agata Jakubowska is Associate Professor at the Institute of Art History, Warsaw University. Katy Deepwell is Founder and Editor of n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal and Professor of Contemporary Art, Theory and Criticism at Middlesex University, London.

• Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1 Katy Deepwell and Agata Jakubowska 1 Women Artists’ Collectives in France: A Multiplicity of Positions in a Turbulent Context 19 Fabienne Dumont 2 Making Space for Feminism. All-Women Art Exhibitions in Sweden in the 1970s 47 Annika Öhrner 3 Feminist Collaborative Projects in the UK in the 1970s 71 Katy Deepwell 4 ‘For Us, Art is Work’: In♀Akt – International Action Community of Women Artists 96 Elke Krasny 5 The VBKÖ’s Archive as a Site of Political Confrontation, or How Can You Sing Out of Tune? 119 Nina Hoechtl and Julia Wieger 6 The International Exhibition Kvindeudstillingen XX på Charlottenborg in Copenhagen and the Idea of Feminist Art Space 144 Monika Kaiser 7 Heterotopian Spaces of Feminist Art Practice: The Schule für kreativen Feminismus and the Stichting Vrouwen in de Beeldende Kunst 167 Kathleen Wentrack 8 Women’s Art Spaces: Two Mediterranean Case Studies 189 Katia Almerini 9 Portuguese Women Artists at the National Society of Fine Arts: Why Was This Not a Feminist Exhibition? 209 Márcia Oliveira 10 No Groups but Friendship. All-Women Initiatives in Poland at the Turn of the 1980s 229 Agata Jakubowska 11 ‘And – I have not taken him’. The Erfurt Women Artists’ Group 248 Susanne Altmann Notes on Contributors 269 Index 273

Reviews'The volume is characterized by its wealth of information [...] It is a knowledgeable and multifaceted contribution to the history of the women-specific and feminist art movement of the 1970s in a comparative and global perspective, and continues into the following decades.' (Translated from German.) Edith Futscher, FrauenKunstWissenschaft