Helena Reckitt is an independent writer and arts organizer with a longstanding critical research interest in feminist art and theory. A former commissioning editor at Routledge, and head of talks at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Reckitt is currently Director of Education at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Georgia. She was co-editor, with Joel Oppenheimer, of Acting on AIDS: Sex, Drugs, and Politics (1998) and curated the exhibition 'Found Wanting' (Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Georgia, 2000) Editor's Residence: Atlanta, Georgia Survey Author Details Peggy Phelan is among the best-known contemporary feminist theorists, who has written extensively on visual arts and performance from feminist psychoanalytic perspectives. Phelan is Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts. New York University. She is the author of Unmarked: The Politics of Performance (1993), Mourning Sex (1997) and Death Rehearsals: Andy Warhol, Ronald Reagan and Death in America (2000), and co-editor of Acting Out: Feminist Performances (1993) and The Ends of Performance (1998) Survey Author's Residence: New York

Preface - Helena Reckitt; Survey - Peggy Phelan; Works - c; 250 plates; Documents; Artists' and Authors' Biographies; Bibliography; Index