Examining work by a wide range of women artists from different cultures and historical periods, Women Making Art asks why women's work has been seen as secondary, and mobilizes contemporary feminist thinking to reconsider how and why women have made art.

Section 1 - History: Introduction 1. Exiled Histories: Holocaust and Heimat 2. Corporeal Cartographies: Anglophone Women of the African Diaspora 3. Re-inscribing Histories: Viet Nam and Representation Section 2 - Subjectivity: Introduction 4. Embodiment: Space and Situated Knowledge 5. Performativity: Desire and the Inscribed Body 6. Becoming: Science, Art and Wondrous Machines Section 3- Aesthetics: Introduction 7. Pleasure and Knowledge: 'Orientalism' and Filmic Vision 8. The Word and the Flesh: Text/Image Remade 9. The Place of Time: Australian Feminist Art and Theory Afterword