Summary
Currey explores the daily obstacles and rituals of women who are artists--painters, composers, sculptors, scientists, filmmakers, and performers. We see how these brilliant minds get to work, the choices they have to make: rebuffing convention, stealing (or secreting away) time from the pull of husb... Full description
- SOME WEIRDNESS. Octavia Butler
- Yayoi Kusama
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Pina Bausch
- Marisol
- Nina Simone
- Diane Arbus
- OYSTERS AND CHAMPAGNE. Louise Nevelson
- Isak Dinesen
- Josephine Baker
- Lillian Hellman
- Coco Chanel
- Elsa Schiaparelli
- Martha Graham
- Elizabeth Bowen
- Frida Kahlo
- - Agnes de Mille
- THE VORTEX. Louisa May Alcott
- Radclyffe Hall
- Eileen Gray
- Isadora Duncan
- Colette
- Lynn Fontanne
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Tallulah Bankhead
- Birgit Nilsson
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Margaret Bourke-White
- BOREDOM AND SUFFERING. Marie Bashkirseff
- Germaine de Staël
- Marie de Vichy-Chamrond
- Dorothy Parker
- Edna Ferber
- Margaret Mitchell
- Marian Anderson
- Leontyne Price
- Gertrude Lawrence
- Edith Head
- Marlene Dietrich
- Ida Lupino
- Betty Comden
- PURE NEGLECT. Zoe Akins
- Agnes Martin
- Katherine Mansfield
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Bridget Riley
- Julie Mehretu
- Rachel Whiteread
- Alice Walker
- Caroline King
- Andrea Zittel
- Meredith Monk
- Grace Paley
- A BALLOON, A SPACESHIP, A SUBMARINE, A CLOSET. Susan Sontag
- Joan Mitchell
- Marguerite Duras
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- Barbara Hepworth
- Stella Bowen
- Kate Chopin
- Harriet Jacobs
- Marie Curie
- RESIGNATION AND RELIEF. George Eliot
- Edith Wharton
- Anna Pavlova
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Virginia Woolf
- Vanessa Bell
- Maggi Hambling
- Carolee Schneemann
- Marilyn Minter
- Josephine Meckseper
- Jessye Norman
- Maggie Nelson
- Nikki Giovanni
- AN ABNORMAL LIFE. Anne Bradstreet
- Emily Dickinson
- Harriet Hosmer
- Fanny Trollope
- Harriet Martineau
- Fannie Hurst
- Emily Post
- Janet Scudder
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
- A SUBTLE AND DEEP-LAID PLAN. Niki de Saint Phalle
- Ruth Asawa
- Lila Katzen
- Helen Frankenthaler
- Eileen Farrell
- Eleanor Antin
- Julia Wolfe
- Charlotte Bray
- Hayden Dunham
- Isabel Allende
- Zadie Smith
- Hilary Mantel
- Catherine Opie
- Joan Jonas
- DEADLY DETERMINATION. Marie-Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin
- Elizabeth Carter
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Mary Shelley
- Clara Schumann
- Charlotte Brontë
- Christina Rossetti
- Julia Ward Howe
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Rosa Bonheur
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Dorothy Thompson
- VIBRATIONS OF CHANCE. Janet Frame
- Jane Campion
- Agnès Varda
- Françoise Sagan
- Gloria Naylor
- Alice Neel
- Shirley Jackson
- Alma Thomas
- Lee Krasner
- Grace Hartigan
- Toni Cade Bambara
- Margaret Walker
- A PRIVILEGED SPACE. Tamara de Lempicka
- Romaine Brooks
- Eudora Welty
- Elena Ferrante
- Joan Didion
- Sheila Heti
- Miranda July
- Patti Smith
- Ntozake Shange
- Cindy Sherman
- Renee Cox
- Petah Coyne
- FROM RAGE TO DESPAIR AND BACK AGAIN. Djuna Barnes
- Käthe Kollwitz
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Natalia Ginzburg
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Jean Rhys
- Isabel Bishop
- Doris Lessing.