Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements Introduction: addressing the other woman -- I Writing the 'I' otherwise: telegraphing black feminism in the work of Adrian Piper and Angela Davis -- 1 Adrian Piper's textual address -- 2 Letters from an imaginary enemy, Angela Davis -- II Typing the poetry of monsters: Nancy Spero and Valerie Solanas write aggression 3 Writing the drives in Nancy Spero's Codex Artaud -- 4 Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto and the texts of aggression
III Hieroglyphs of maternal desire: the collaborative texts of Mary Kelly and Laura Mulvey -- 5 Rewriting maternal femininity in Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document -- 6 Feminist desires and collective reading in the work of Laura Mulvey -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
This book analyses how three artists - Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly - worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s. These artists used text and images of writing to challenge female stereotypes, addressing viewers and asking them to participate in the project of imagining women beyond familiar words and images of subordination. The book explores this dimension of their work through the concept of 'the other woman', a utopian wish to reach women and correspond with them across similarities and differences. To make the artwork's aspirations more concrete, it p
