This book brings transnational feminist theory and criticism together with women's art practices to discuss the connections between aesthetics, gender and identity in a global world; shows the movement of women globally rarely matches dominant models of global exchange; traces their eccentric experiences of the effects of globalization.

Marsha Meskimmon is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Theory at Loughborough University|Dorothy C. Rowe is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Bristol

Editorial introduction: Ec/centric affinities: Locations, aesthetics, experiences - Marsha Meskimmon and Dorothy Rowe 1. Gendering the multitude: feminist politics, globalisation and art history - Angela Dimitrakaki 2. Women, art, migration and diaspora: The turn to art in the social sciences and the 'new' sociology of art? - Maggie O'Neill 3. Finding a different way home - Misha Myers in conversation with Tracey Warr 4. On foreign discomfort: Magdalena makeup live art event - Lena Simic 5. 'How we live today ...' - Florence Ayisi in dialogue with Mo White 6. Here, there and in-between: South African women and the diasporic condition - Marion Arnold 7. Image-making with Jeanne Duval in mind: Photoworks by Maud Sulter, 1989-2002 - Deborah Cherry 8. Alison Lapper Pregnant: Embodied geographies, post-imperial identities and public sculpture in London's Trafalgar Square - Rosemary Betterton 9. Diasporic unwrappings - Lubaina Himid in conversation with Jane Beckett 10. A Burd's eye view: Paula Rego's Abortion series - Michele Waugh 11. Testing the limits: Oreet Ashery in conversation with Dorothy Rowe Index