Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction. Suzanne Lacy xvii
7. PART 1. Learning to Look: The Seventies
8. Introduction 2
9. 1. Prostitution Notes (1974) 5
10. 2. Falling Apart (1980) 20
11. 3. Body Contract (1974) 30
12. Photo Essay. Learn Where the Meat Comes From (1976) 43
13. 4. Cinderella in a Dragster (1977) 48
14. 5. The Bag Lady: On Memory (1982) 52
15. 6. The Life and Times of Donaldina Cameron (1978) 57
16. 7. In Mourning and In Rage (With Analysis Aforethought) (1978) 64
17. 8. Learning to Look 72
18. 9. Feminist Artists 83
19. 10. Time, Bones, and Art 92
20. PART 2. Political Performance Art: The Eighties
21. Introduction 108
22. 11. Broomsticks and Banners 109
23. 12. The Greening of California Performance 114
24. 13. Made for TV 120
25. 14. Battle of New Orleans (1980) 126
26. 15. Beneath the Seams (1982) 137
27. 16. In the Shadows 144
28. 17. Political Performance Art 151
29. PART 3. Debated Territory: The Nineties
30. Introduction 160
31. 18. The Name of the Game (1991) 161
32. 19. Debated Territory 172
33. 20. Affinities 185
34. 21. Love, Cancer, Memory 194
35. 22. Cancer Notes 211
36. 23. What It Takes 222
37. PART 4. Leaving Art: After 2000
38. Introduction 236
39. 24. The Skin of Memory/La Piel de la Memoria 237
40. 25. Seeking an American Identity 250
41. 26. Cop in the Head, Cop in the Street (2006) 267
42. 27. Having It Good 284
43. 28. Hard Work in a Working- Class Town (2006) 300
44. 29. Tracing Allan Kaprow (2007) 319
45. Afterword: Interceptions and Intension 327
46. Appendix: Chronology and Selected Performances and Installations 339
47. Notes 343
48. Index 369