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This results of this search will give all books, exhibition catalogues, magazines and special issues, blogs, websites and women's art organisations for a country, including places of exhibition and publication and is compiled from n.paradoxa's database.

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2025 Catherine De Zegher ed See All This: Pretty Brilliant Women: III, Goddesses (38) (See All This)

2024 Lotte Johnson, Amanda Pinatih, and Wells Fray-Smith Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art (Barbican Gallery and Stedelijk Museum exhibition) (Prestel)

2024 Ji Yoon Yang Hexed, Vexed, and Sexed (November 3, 2023–January 14, 2024) (West Den Haag, The Netherlands )

2023 Milk Art Journal (3 issues) (House of Oktober) 2023

2023 Catherine De Zegher ed See All This 28: Pretty Brilliant Women, II (See All This)

2020 Nicole Ex, Catherine de Zegher eds See All This #20, Pretty Brilliant initiative (See All This) Set up by Nicole Ex, Catherine de Zegher. Resulted in 2020/2021, special issue of See All This #20/379.

2020 See All This (See All This) No. 20 - Winter 2020/2021. Summary of Pretty Brilliant initiative of 379 women, curated by Nicole Ex and Catherine de Zegher.

2019 Stedelijk Studies 9: Modernism in Migration (Stedelijk) vol. 9, Fall. Modernism in Migration: Relocating Artists, Objects, and Ideas, 1910–1970. Focus is on women artists: Therese Graf, Grete Stern, Tarsila do Amaral.

2018 Alex Martinis Roe To Become Two: Propositions for Feminist Collective Practice (Archive Books in partnership with ar/ge kunst; Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory; If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution; and The Showroom)

2017 Rosemarie Buikema, and Iris van der Tuin eds Doing gender in media, art and culture (1st ed. 2009) (Routledge)

2017 Félix Boggio Ewanjé-Epée, Stella Magliani-Belkacem, Morgane Merteuil, Frédéric Monferrand ed Pour un féminisme de la totalité (Paris : Amsterdam)

2013 Mirjam Weston Female Power. Matriarchy, Spirituality & Utopia (2 March - 19 May) (Arnhem: Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem)

2012 Marta Zarzycka and Bettina Papenburg Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics (London: IB Tauris)

2012 Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies () 2012 Special issue on Feminist Art and Social Movements: Beyond NY/LA (vol 33, no.2)

2011 Frédérique Bergholtz ed If I can´t dance I don´t want to be a part of the revolution: Conversation Pieces (Berlin: Revolver) More

2011 Marta Zarzycka and Bettina Papenburg eds Carnal Aesthetics: Trangressive Imagery and Feminist Politics (London: IB Tauris)

2010 Kelly Clark Keefe Invoking Mnemosyne: art, memory and the uncertain emergence of a feminist embodied mythology (Rotterdam: Sense Publishers)

2010 Mathilde ter heijne Any day now (Kunsthalle Nuremburg and Lentos Museum, Linz) More

2009 Mirjam Westen ed Rebelle: Kunst en feminisme 1969-2009 (Arnhem Gemeentemuseum) More

Review reproduced from Volume 27, n.paradoxa, Jan 2011. Katy Deepwell 'Short Book Reviews'

Mirjam Westen Rebelle: Art and Feminism,1969-2009 Arnhem: Museum foor Moderne Kunst, 2010 ISBN: 978-90-72861-45-0

Finally, the catalogue of this major trans-national exhibition has arrived (see extended interview with the curator, in n.paradoxa vol. 24 (July 2009) pp.24-29). The selection of eighty-eight artists spanning forty years of feminist art mark this book as distinctive and very important but it uniquely has a strong focus on the work of Dutch women artists and their neglected feminist histories (previously the subject of only one or two essays). Arnhem's Museum, under Mirjam Westen's directorship, has built a significant collection of women artists' work over the years, with a strong focus on Dutch women artists. The exhibition catalogue documents the work of the selected artists and refers to the many trans-national feminist exhibitions which have taken place in Holland since the 1970s. This draws attention to new readings of feminist art in Holland within an international framework. It includes a diary of feminism from the 1980s by Riet van der Linden (who joined SVBK, Holland's women's artists organisation at that time and became editor of Ruimte, a key feminist art journal). There is an essay by Ingelies Vermeulen on the Feministische kunst international (1979), a major exhibition which was simultaneously 'a feast of recognition, but also...an exhibition that made you think about your own ideals'. Marlite Halbertsma (its curator) and Hanneke Danturna had argued in 1977 that women artists could be divided into neutral art (made by women), women's art and feminist art and this exhibition set out to showcase the latter. Tineke Reijnders' essay looks at the women behind numerous artist run spaces in the 1980s. Some were directly feminist and others' not but she outlines a wide range of artist-organised initiatives women artists have been actively involved in: from Lily Stokker's Stikker Stokker Gallery in New York to the Chinese European Art Center in Xiamen (Inke Gudmundsson and Qin Jian) to the work of Jeanne van Heeswijk in De Strip or Zimbabwean Sithabile Mlotshwa's Thamgidi Foundation in Arnhem. In the 1970s and 1980s, this history covers the Titia Smit's involvement in W 139 (Amsterdam) or the In-Out Center (Amsterdam) and Hester Oerlemans' work for Paleis voor Schone Kunsten (1983-1985) followed by De Oceaan; and the Hooghuis art initiative in Arnhem. The other major essay is by Ineke van Hamersveld who looks at women's protest and networks in the 1970s and 1980s in Holland.

2003 The Sandwich Man ((The Netherlands)) (June)

2003 Fries Museum, Leeuwarden Just love me : post/feminist positions of the 1990s from the Goetz Collection Curators: Rainald Schumacher, Matthias Winzen (Fries Museum (Leeuwarden, Netherlands), Bergen kunstmuseum, Sammlung Goetz, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Koln : Konig)

2000 Deanna Hearst and Nat Muller eds Ctrl+shift art - ctrl+shift gender: Convergences of Gender, New Media and Art (Netherlands; Amsterdam, Axis Bureau voor de Kunsten V/M) More

1999 Old Boys Network next Cyberfeminist International (Rotterdam: March 8-11) More

1999 Axis : Deanna Herst, Jan Torpus, Alex Schaub Axis: Gender, Media, Art (Amsterdam: Axis, (a CD-Rom)) More

1995 F. Pezoldo Pezoldo: Kunst fur das 21 Jahrhundert: Entwurf einer Gegenwelt / Art for the 21st Century: Design of a Counterworld (Edition: Cantz)

1993 Titia Jeanette Top Art and Gender: Creative Achievement in the Visual Arts (Amsterdam)

1993 Mieke Bal and Anneke Smelik, Rosemarie Buikema eds Vrouwenstudies in de Cultuurwetenschappen (Germany, Muiderberg: Coninho)

1993 Martine Brinkhuis Koppeltekens: vier Kunstenaarsparen vier Dialogen (Amsterdam: In de Knipscheer)

1991, 1992 Museum Fodor/Stedelijk Parler Femme (Amsterdam:Museum Fodor/Stedelijk, exhibition catalogue)

1984 Ruimte ((Amsterdam)) 1996

1984 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Feminisme in het Medium (Band I and II) (Amsterdam: Stedelijk)

1980 Heidi de Mare Feministiese Kunst Bestaat Niet: wij maken er een potje van Nijmegen (Nijmegen: K.U.N.)

1980 International Festival (Assen) () The festival runs over two days in March featuring films made by women or in which women play a major role.

1979 Gemeente Museum den Haag and de Appel, Amsterdam Feministische Kunst International (Den Haag, Gemeente Museum & Amsterdam, de Appel)

1978 A. Schenk Waaron zijn er geen beroemde vrouwelijke kunstenaars geweest? (Amsterdam: Stichting Vrouwen in de Beeldende Kunst)

1975 M. van Soest and E.Besnyo Neid,wat ben ik bewust geworden: Vijf jaar Dolle Mina (Holland : Den Haag: Stichting Uitgeverij Dolle Mina)

Atria, formerly Aletta, formerly IIAV () Atria: institute on gender equality and women's history. A very important research and study center with a large library in Amsterdam

Girls Like Us ()

SVBK, Amsterdam (women artist's organisation), archive housed at Atria () Archive of Stichting Vrouwen in de Beeldende Kunst (SVBK).SVBK's archives on women artists, collected between 1976-1993 are at Atria (formerly known as Aletta), Women's Library in the Netherlands.