A sharp, image-rich sourcebook on women and performance art in 1970s America, edited by Moira Roth and published by Astro Artz in 1983.

Rather than treating the decade as a neat art-historical category, it gathers a charged field of artists, actions, images, timelines, feminist politics, ritual, body work, public intervention, and the unstable space between art, protest and performance.

The book is especially good as a document of feminist art practice before it hardened into syllabus language: Judy Chicago, Lucy Lippard, Mary Beth Edelson, Adrian Piper, Pauline Oliveros, Carolee Schneemann-adjacent contexts, women’s liberation, the ERA, consciousness-raising, ritual performance, video, sound, the body, and the politics of presence. It feels both archival and alive: part chronology, part reader, part visual record of a decade in which women artists were radically remaking what performance could be and what art history was prepared to see.

First printing, May 1983. Published by Astro Artz, Los Angeles. Paperback sourcebook format. Good vintage second-hand condition, with visible shelfwear, rubbing to covers and edges, light age toning, and handling wear consistent with an early-80s art/performance publication.