Compendium of feminist essays on women's art by Lucy R. Lippard. Includes "Introduction: Changing Since Changing"; PART I: GENERAL ESSAYS, "Freelancing the Dragon Sexual Politics: Art Style," "Prefaces to Catalogues of Women's Exhibitions," "Household Images in Art," "Fragments," "What Is Female Imagery?," "Six," "The L.A. Woman's Building," "Making Up: Role-Playing and Transformation in Women's Art," "Points of View: Stuart, De Mott, Jacquette, Graves," "The Pains and Pleasures of Rebirth: European and American Women's Body Art," "The Women Artists' Movement-What Next?"; PART II: MONOGRAPHS, "Irene Siegel," "Eva Hesse: The Circle," "Catalysis: An Interview with Adrian Piper," "Color at the Edge: Jo Baer," "Joan Mitchell," "Hanne Darboven: Deep in Numbers," "Ree Morton: At the Still Point of the Turning World," "Jackie Winsor," "Mary Miss: An Extremely Clear Situation," "Judy Chicago, Talking to Lucy R. Lippard," "Pandora," "May Stevens' Big Daddies," "Louise Bourgeois: From the Inside Out," Rosemarie Castoro: Working Out," "Faith Ringgold's Black, Political, Feminist Art," "Yvonne Rainer on Feminism and Her Film," "Distancing: The Films of Nancy Graves," "Camouflage: Films by Holt and Horn"; PART III: FICTION, "Waterlay," "Caveheart," and an index.

"Lucy Lippard is both one of our finest critics of contemporary art and one of the most perceptive and strongest supporters of women artists. These thirty essays, written since the publication of Changing in 1971, delineate the growth of Lippard's feminism and the present status of women's art. In Lippard's words: '... while I wish I could claim that this book established a new feminist criticism, all I can say is that it extends the basic knowledge of art by women, that it provides the raw material for such a development.' From the Center is important, stimulating reading for all concerned with the women's art movement." -- from back cover