Preface by Belinda Smaill Introduction by Boel Ulfsdotter and Anna Backman Rogers
Section one: DOCUMENTARY PRACTICES Chapter 1: LISA FRENCH: "Women in the Director’s Chair: The Female Gaze in Documentary Film" Chapter 2: ELIZABETH COFFMAN AND ERICA STEIN: "New Day Films: Collective Aesthetics and the Collection" Chapter 3: SHARON DANIEL: "The Female Auteur and Voice: A Personal Context" Interview: "The Final Projects of Hannah Wilke and Jo Spence": A dialogue between Elena Crippa and Anna Backman Rogers
Section two: DOCUMENTARY THEORIES Chapter 4: GABRIELLE MCNALLY: "The Feminist Voice: Improvisation in Women’s Autobiographical Filmmaking" Chapter 5: RONA MURRAY: "Speaking About or Speaking Nearby? Documentary Practice and Female Authorship in the films of Kim Longinotto" Chapter 6: APARNA SHARMA: "A Politics of Nearness: Uses of Montage and Haptics in Documenting Cultural Experiences of Communities of India"
Section three: FEMALE AUTHORSHIP AND GLOBAL IDENTITIES Chapter 7: ANNELIES VAN NOORTWIJK: "The Other, The Same: Towards a Metamodern Poetics with Heddy Honigmann" Chapter 8: BOEL ULFSDOTTER: "The Memories of Belleville Baby: Autofiction as Evidence" Chapter 9: SOPHIE MAYER: "To::For::By::About::With::From:: Towards Solid Women: On (not) Being Addressed by Tracey Moffatt’s Moodeijt Yorgas" Chapter 10: WAKAE NAKANE: "Constructing an Intimate Sphere Through Her Own Female Body: Naomi Kawase’s Documentary Films" Chapter 11: CATHERINE SUMMERHAYES: "Celebrity/Activist/Photographer: Mia Farrow" Interview: "Being a Woman Documentary Maker in Taiwan": An interview with Singing Chen and Wuna Wu, by Chris Berry