Deborah J. Johnson is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Culture at Providence College in the Art History and Women’s Studies departments. She is the author of several books, scholarly articles, and museum catalogs, two of which won national awards. She received her PhD from Brown University.Wendy Oliver, Professor of Dance and Women & Gender Studies at Providence College, chairs the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Film. She is the author/editor of articles and books on dance and gender, dance history, and criticism. She holds an EdD from Columbia University.

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• List of Illustrations – Preface – Acknowledgements – Deborah J. Johnson/Wendy Oliver: Introduction – Deborah J. Johnson: The Political Dialogic of Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece (1964) – Wendy Oliver: Disappearing Act: Yvonne Rainer, Trio A, and the Feminist Dilemma (1966) – Annie Perkins: The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks (1970s–’80s) – Deborah J. Johnson: The Secularization of the Sacred: Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party and Feminist Spirituality (1974–79) – Maura Reilly: Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills: Reproductive or Transgressive Mimicry? (1977–81) – Loretta Lorance: Zaha Hadid: The Peak Club Competition and the Politics of Architecture (1982) – Phillipa Kafka: Erecting a Statue of an Unknown Goddess in Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife (1991) – Denise Bauer: Jane Campion’s The Piano: A Feminist Tale of Resistance (1993) – Sarah Lansdale Stevenson: Yielding to Multiplicity: The Kaleidoscopic Subject of Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive (1997) – Wendy Oliver: Crystal Pite’s Emergence: Hierarchy, Swarm Intelligence, and Contemporary Ballet (2009) – Christina L. Reitz: A Firm Foundation: Formal Tradition in Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices (2009–2012) – Deborah J. Johnson: Beygency: Power, Sex, and Subjectivity in the Feminist Politics of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter (2013) – Rebecca Peabody: Ephemeral Monumentality and the Art of the Future: Kara Walker’s A Subtlety (2014) – Jennifer Madden: Having Her Pie and Eating It Too: Waitress and the Popular Art of Diane Paulus (2016) – Contributors – Index.

Deborah J. Johnson is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Culture at Providence College in the Art History and Women’s Studies departments. She is the author of several books, scholarly articles, and museum catalogs, two of which won national awards. She received her PhD from Brown University.Wendy Oliver, Professor of Dance and Women & Gender Studies at Providence College, chairs the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Film. She is the author/editor of articles and books on dance and gender, dance history, and criticism. She holds an EdD from Columbia University.

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• List of Illustrations – Preface – Acknowledgements – Deborah J. Johnson/Wendy Oliver: Introduction – Deborah J. Johnson: The Political Dialogic of Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece (1964) – Wendy Oliver: Disappearing Act: Yvonne Rainer, Trio A, and the Feminist Dilemma (1966) – Annie Perkins: The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks (1970s–’80s) – Deborah J. Johnson: The Secularization of the Sacred: Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party and Feminist Spirituality (1974–79) – Maura Reilly: Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills: Reproductive or Transgressive Mimicry? (1977–81) – Loretta Lorance: Zaha Hadid: The Peak Club Competition and the Politics of Architecture (1982) – Phillipa Kafka: Erecting a Statue of an Unknown Goddess in Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife (1991) – Denise Bauer: Jane Campion’s The Piano: A Feminist Tale of Resistance (1993) – Sarah Lansdale Stevenson: Yielding to Multiplicity: The Kaleidoscopic Subject of Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive (1997) – Wendy Oliver: Crystal Pite’s Emergence: Hierarchy, Swarm Intelligence, and Contemporary Ballet (2009) – Christina L. Reitz: A Firm Foundation: Formal Tradition in Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices (2009–2012) – Deborah J. Johnson: Beygency: Power, Sex, and Subjectivity in the Feminist Politics of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter (2013) – Rebecca Peabody: Ephemeral Monumentality and the Art of the Future: Kara Walker’s A Subtlety (2014) – Jennifer Madden: Having Her Pie and Eating It Too: Waitress and the Popular Art of Diane Paulus (2016) – Contributors – Index.