Contents Foreword 9 Arnold L. Lehman Curators' Preface 11 Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin Introduction: Toward Transnational Feminisms 15 Maura Reilly Women Artists Then and Now: Painting, Sculpture, and the Image of the Self 47 Linda Nochlin Providing a Space of Freedom: Women Artists from Africa 71 N'Gone Fall Gender Mobility: Through the Lens of Five Women Artists in India 79 Geeta Kapur Contemporary Japanese Women's Self-Awareness 97 Michiko Kasahara What Is Feminist About Contemporary Asian Women's Art? 107 Joan Kee Central American Women Artists in a Global Age 123 Virginia Perez-Ratton Western European Women Artists: Speaking in a Minor Voice 145 Elisabeth Lebovici Post-Totalitarian Art: Eastern and Central Europe 153 Charlotta Kotik Plates 167 Acknowledgments 266 Artist Biographies 267 Selected Bibliography288 Contributors 298 Index 299