Kerry Greaves is Assistant Professor in Art History in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

• INTRODUCTION She Is No Gentle Lamb in the Cave of the Werewolf: Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries SECTION 1:Critical Reconsiderations, New Languages of Interpretation 1. The Work of Júlíana Sveinsdóttir: Engaging Issues of Gender and Colonial Subjectivity 2. The Symbolic Abstraction of Else Alfelt 3. Women Pioneers of Abstraction in 1950s Norway: The Balancing Act of Aase Texmon Rygh, Inger Sitter, and Gudrun Kongelf 4. Movement and the Living Surface: Greenlandic Modernism, Pia Arke, and the Decolonial Legacy of Women Artists in Greenland SECTION 2:Interventions, Transmissions, Networks 5. Gabriele Münter and the 1917 Exhibition of the Föreningen Svenska Konstnärinnor and Vereinigung Bildende Künstlerinnen Österreichs 6. Modern Corporeality: Body, Movement, and Dance in Ellen Thesleff’s Art 7. Women Artists in and around the Danish Journal linien 8. No One Creates Alone: Past and Present in a Common Reading of Artist Sonja Ferlov Mancoba SECTION 3:Subversive Spaces, Collaborations, and Reclamations 9. Collaboration and Co-Habitation: Swedish Women Artists at the Turn of the Century 10. “Women Need Work, and Work Needs Women”: Women Artists and Their Networks in Fin de Siècle Sweden 11. Shady Plants, Ecstatic Trees, and Vulva Seashells: Symbols of Erotic Nature in the Surrealist Work of Rita Kernn-Larsen and Elsa Thoresen 12. Anneliese Hager, Cobra, and the Camera-less Photograph SECTION 4:Subjectivities, Identity, and Self-Fashioning 13. Elsa Laula, Astri Aasen, and the Ascent of Sámi Visual Sovereignty, 1904–1917 14. Emancipated Bodies: Anna Klindt Sørensen Paints the Female Nude 15. Elaboration of the “New Woman” Figure by Women Artists in Interwar Finland 16. Soft Bones: Sonja Ferlov Mancoba and the Reconfiguration of Anatomy SECTION 5:Alternative Practices of Agency and Resistance 17. Dealing with Circles: Franciska Clausen and Her Position in the Group Cercle et Carré (1929–1930) 18. Surrealist Beasts: Greta Knutson’s Strategy of “Performative Refusal” 19. The Representation of Lack, the Matter of Imagination: Hannah Ryggen, Aesthetics of Resistance, and Art against Fascism 20. Intra-Actions with Nature (and Beyond): Hilma af Klint, Else Alfelt, and Sonja Ferlov Mancoba

Kerry Greaves is Assistant Professor in Art History in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

• INTRODUCTION She Is No Gentle Lamb in the Cave of the Werewolf: Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries SECTION 1:Critical Reconsiderations, New Languages of Interpretation 1. The Work of Júlíana Sveinsdóttir: Engaging Issues of Gender and Colonial Subjectivity 2. The Symbolic Abstraction of Else Alfelt 3. Women Pioneers of Abstraction in 1950s Norway: The Balancing Act of Aase Texmon Rygh, Inger Sitter, and Gudrun Kongelf 4. Movement and the Living Surface: Greenlandic Modernism, Pia Arke, and the Decolonial Legacy of Women Artists in Greenland SECTION 2:Interventions, Transmissions, Networks 5. Gabriele Münter and the 1917 Exhibition of the Föreningen Svenska Konstnärinnor and Vereinigung Bildende Künstlerinnen Österreichs 6. Modern Corporeality: Body, Movement, and Dance in Ellen Thesleff’s Art 7. Women Artists in and around the Danish Journal linien 8. No One Creates Alone: Past and Present in a Common Reading of Artist Sonja Ferlov Mancoba SECTION 3:Subversive Spaces, Collaborations, and Reclamations 9. Collaboration and Co-Habitation: Swedish Women Artists at the Turn of the Century 10. “Women Need Work, and Work Needs Women”: Women Artists and Their Networks in Fin de Siècle Sweden 11. Shady Plants, Ecstatic Trees, and Vulva Seashells: Symbols of Erotic Nature in the Surrealist Work of Rita Kernn-Larsen and Elsa Thoresen 12. Anneliese Hager, Cobra, and the Camera-less Photograph SECTION 4:Subjectivities, Identity, and Self-Fashioning 13. Elsa Laula, Astri Aasen, and the Ascent of Sámi Visual Sovereignty, 1904–1917 14. Emancipated Bodies: Anna Klindt Sørensen Paints the Female Nude 15. Elaboration of the “New Woman” Figure by Women Artists in Interwar Finland 16. Soft Bones: Sonja Ferlov Mancoba and the Reconfiguration of Anatomy SECTION 5:Alternative Practices of Agency and Resistance 17. Dealing with Circles: Franciska Clausen and Her Position in the Group Cercle et Carré (1929–1930) 18. Surrealist Beasts: Greta Knutson’s Strategy of “Performative Refusal” 19. The Representation of Lack, the Matter of Imagination: Hannah Ryggen, Aesthetics of Resistance, and Art against Fascism 20. Intra-Actions with Nature (and Beyond): Hilma af Klint, Else Alfelt, and Sonja Ferlov Mancoba