In this selection of recent essays, Pollock insightfully engages all major areas of contemporary theory, especially focusing on sexed subjectivities, post-colonialism and Marxist-informed history. In her commentary, Penny Florence places Pollock's critique of modernism, art history, and criticism within the context of the social, political, and ideological developments that have taken place since the 1970s. Florence recognizes in Pollock's work a critical model that moves beyond the contradictions that take place within the history of art. Pollock's own essays and Florence's commentary elaborate the complexities in evaluating this prominent theorist and feminist, whose work demands a capacity to sustain contradiction.

Introduction to the Series Introduction: Looking Back to the Future: Penny Florence Essays: Griselda Pollock Part I: Critical Positions: Addressing the Now Critical Positions Trouble in the Archives Femwatching in the 1990s Part II: Feminism, History, and Contemporary Practice in the Visual Arts Feminist Interventions in History: On the Historical, the Subjective, and the Textual Painting, Feminism and History Abandoned at the Mouth of Hell or A Second Look that Does Not Kill: The Uncanny Coming to Matrixial Memory Part III: Historical Re-Visions Proximity and the Color of Desire: The Laboring Body and Its Sex On Mary Cassatt's Reading Le Figaro or The Case of the Missing Women Part IV: Cinematic Moments Crows, Blossoms, and Lust for Death- Cinema and the Myth of Van Gogh as the Modern Artist Empire, Identity, and Place: Masculinities in Greystroke: The Legend of Tarzan Part V: Autohistories Territories of Desire: Reconsiderations of an African Childhood Deadly Tales Commentary: Griselda Pollock and Feminist Critique: Post/Modernism in the Fourth Dimension: Penny Florence