A Time of One's Own

Catherine Grant is a Reader at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and coeditor of Fandom as Methodology and Creative Writing and Art History.

Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Anachronizing Feminism 1 1. Fans of Feminism 21 2. Killjoy's Kastle in London 47 3. A Time of One's Own 67 4. A Feminist Chorus 87 5. Conversations and Constellations 109 Conclusion. Rooms of Our Own 133 Notes 151 Bibliography 179 Index 205

"Grant's evocative writing delineates the affective contours of collective art participation, and she vividly transports the reader with her on various expeditions - to an outdoor group performance in a wintry Trafalgar Square, to cacophonous choral readings of feminist texts or sitting alone on the last quiet days of a gallery exhibition. One of the true pleasures of the volume is its deep attentiveness to the textures, materials and experience of works of art, interwoven with the author's compelling account of how cultural encounters strengthened her feminist consciousness." - Victoria Horne (Burlington Contemporary) "Grant's writing opens avenues for imagining possible feminist pasts, presents, and futures." - Julia Alting (Trigger) "An original, associative and compelling account of archival fever and fandom in feminist practice ... An exemplar for the ways we can, and should, learn together." - Susannah Thompson (Art History) "The undoubted importance of Grant's book lies in the flexibility and breadth of the new set of terms and conceptual frameworks she applies to contemporary feminist art history. . . . The author's transparent subjectivity and embrace of complexity offer up an authentically feminist work of scholarship predicated on her expansion of a familiar precept on her expansion of a familiar precept: 'The personal is the artistic is the professional is the political' (54)." - Jennifer S. Griffiths (Woman's Art Journal)