Amelia Jones is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Riverside. She has organised exhibitions including Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in Feminist Art History at the UCLA/Armand Hammer Art Museum (1996), and her publications include the co-edited anthology Performing the Body/Performing the Text (1999), Body Art/Performing the Subject (1998), and Postmodernism and the En-Gendering of Marcel Duchamp (1994).

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