A selection of essays by Griselda Pollock, engaging areas of contemporary theory, especially sexed subjectivities, post-colonialism and Marxist-informed history. Penny Florence's commentary places Pollock's critique within the context of developments that have taken place since the 1970s.

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