Affiliated with the Surrealist Group in Paris in the 1960s, Penelope Rosemont is a Chicago poet and painter.

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: All My Names Know Your Leap: Surrealist Women and Their Challenge
• Notes on Individuals Frequently Cited in This Anthology
• 1. The First Women Surrealists, 1924-1929
  • Introduction: The Women of La Révolution surréaliste
  • Renée Gauthier
    • Dream: I Am in a Field...
  • Simone Kahn
    • Surrealist Text: This Took Place in the Springtime...
    • The Exquisite Corpses
  • Denise Levy
    • Surrealist Text: I Went into a Green Song...
    • Surrealist Text: Ivory Blue and Shady Satin...
  • Nancy Cunard
    • Surrealist Manifestation at the Diaghilev Ballet
    • The Beginnings of the Surrealist Revolution
    • Surrealism, Ethnography, and Revolution
  • Nadja
    • The Blue Wind
  • Fanny Beznos
    • I Go, the Wind Pushing Me Along
    • Purity! Purity! Purity!
  • Suzanne Muzard
    • On Love: Reply to an Inquiry
    • My Passage in Surrealism
  • Valentine Penrose
    • When It Comes to Love: Response to an Inquiry
  • Suzanne Muzard, Elsie Houston, and Jeannette Ducrocq Tanguy
    • Surrealist Games
  • 2. In the Service of Revolution, 1930-1939
    • Introduction: Women and Surrealism in the Thirties
    • Claude Cabun
      • Captive Balloon
      • The Invisible Adventure
      • Poetry Keeps Its Secret
      • Surrealism and Working-Class Emancipation
      • From life I still expect that overwhelming experience
      • Beware Domestic Objects!
    • Nancy Cunard
      • How Come, White Man?
      • The Scottsboro Case
      • A Trip to Harlem
    • Simone Yoyotte
      • Pale Blue Line in a Forced Episode
      • Half-Season
    • Greta Knutson
      • Foreign Land
    • Lise Deharme
      • The Empty Cage
      • The Little Girl of the Black Forest
    • Denise Bellon, Gala Dalí, Nusch Eluard, Yolande Oliviero
      • Experimental Research: On the Irrational Knowledge of the Object: The Crystal Ball of the Seers
    • Maruja Mallo
      • Surrealism as Manifest in My Work
    • Meret Oppenheim
      • Where Is the Wagon Going?
      • If You Say the Right Word, I Can Sing...
      • Anyone That Sees Her White Fingers...
    • Jacqueline Lamba
      • A Revolutionary Approach to Life and the World
    • Gisèle Prassinos
      • Arrogant Hair
      • The Ghost of Chateaubriand
    • Toyen
      • A Community of Ethical Views
    • Alice Rahon
      • Four Poems from On the Bare Ground
      • Despair
      • Hourglass Lying Down
    • Valentine Penrose
      • There Is the Fire
      • The Datura the Serpent
      • To a Woman to a Path
    • Sheila Legge
      • I Have Done My Best For You
    • Eileen Agar
      • Am I a Surrealist?
    • Mary Low
      • Women and the Spanish Revolution
    • Marcelle Ferry
      • You Came down from the Mountains...
      • When He Went Away...
      • The One Seated on the Stones of Cheops...
      • Frenzy, Sweet Little Child, You Sleep...
    • Leonora Carrington
      • The Sand Camel
    • Grace Pailthorpe
      • What We Put in Prison
      • The Scientific Aspect of Surrealism
      • Surrealist Art
      • On the Importance of Fantasy Life
    • Hélène Vanel
      • Poetry and Dance
    • Ithell Colquhoun
      • What Do I Need to Paint a Picture?
    • Jeanne Megnen
      • The Noise Will Start Tomorrow
    • 3. Neither Your War Nor Your Peace: The Surrealist International, 1940-1945
      • Introduction: Women in the Surrealist Diaspora: First Principles and New Beginnings
      • Suzanne Césaire
        • André Breton, Poet
        • Discontent of a Civilization
        • 1943: Surrealism and Us
        • The Domain of the Marvelous
      • Mary Low
        • Perchance to Dream
        • Women and Love through Private Property
      • Frida Kahlo
        • I Paint My Own Reality
        • From Her Journal
      • Lucie Thésée
        • Beautiful as...
        • The Buckets in My Head...
        • Where Will the Earth Fall?
      • Leonora Carrington
        • Down Below
      • Régine Raufast
        • Photography and Image
      • Laurence Iché
        • Scissors Strokes by the Clock...
        • I Prefer Your Uneasiness Like a Dark Lantern...
        • Unpublished Correspondence
        • The Philosophers' Stone
      • Gertrude Pape
        • The Lake
        • Eardrops from Babylon
      • Susy Hare
        • Complaint for a Sorcerer
      • Sonia Sekula
        • Womb
      • Meret Oppenheim
        • Round the World with the Rumpus God....
      • Ithell Colquhoun
        • "Everything Found on Land Is Found in the Sea"
        • Water-Stone of the Wise
      • Emmy Bridgwater
        • On the Line
        • Back to the First Bar
        • The Journey
        • The Birds
      • Edith Rimmington
        • The Growth at the Break
        • The Sea-Gull
      • Alice Rahon
        • Pointed Out Like the Stars...
        • Little Epidermis
        • Sublimated Mercury
        • The Appellants
        • Ferns in a Hollow of Absence...
        • The Sleeping Woman
      • Eva Sulzer
        • Butterfly Dreams
        • Amerindian Art
      • Jacqueline Johnson
        • The Paintings of Alice Rahon Paalen
        • The Earth
      • Ida Kar
        • I Chose Photography
      • Ikbal El Alailly
        • Introduction to Vertu de l'Allemagne [The Virtue of Germany]
      • 4. Surrealism versus the Cold War, 1946-1959
        • Introduction: Regroupment and Occultation: Women in the Surrealist Underground in the 1950s
        • Thérèse Renaud
          • I Lay My Head
        • Françoise Sullivan
          • Dance and Automatism
        • Iréne Hamoir
          • Pearl
          • Aria
          • The Procession
        • Emmy Bridgwater, Ithell Colquhoun, Iréne Hamoir, and Edith Rimmington
          • Surrealist Inquiry: What Do You Hate Most?
        • Lise Deharme
          • I Didn't Know Gertrude Stein
        • Maria Martins
          • I Am the Tropical Night's High Noon
          • Art, Liberation, and Peace
        • Helen Phillips
          • The Image: Recognition of a Moment
        • Vera Hérold
          • The Big L
        • Gisèle Prassinos
          • Peppermint Tower in Praise of Greedy Little Girls
        • Ithell Colquhoun
          • The Mantic Stain: Surrealism and Automatism
        • Dorothea Tanning
          • Legend
        • Nora Mitrani
          • Scandal with a Secret Face
          • "Blacker Than Black. . ."
          • About Cats and Magnolias
          • Poetry, Freedom of Being
          • On Slaves, Suffragettes, and the Whip
          • Concupiscence and Scandal: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism
        • Valentine Penrose
          • I Dream
          • Beautiful or Ugly It Doesn't Matter
        • Jacqueline Johnson
          • Taking a Sight 1951
        • Alice Rahon
          • Painter and Magician
        • Jacqueline Senard
          • Reason and Safety Factors
          • Cat=Clover
          • Polar
        • Elisa Breton
          • One in the Other
        • Elisa Breton, Anne Segbers, and Toyen
          • Surrealist Inquiry: Would You Open the Door?
        • Joyce Mansour
          • Into the Red Velvet
          • Lovely Monster
          • Practical Advice for Waiting
          • To Come, Possession, Prick Tease: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism
        • Meret Oppenheim
          • Automatism at a Crossroads
          • I Have to Write Down the Black Words
        • Judit Reigl
          • Points of Departure for a New Revolt
        • Isabel Meyrelles
          • Night Words
        • Anneliese Hager
          • Of the Poison of Dreams
          • The Blue Spell
          • Automatic Dream
        • Drahomira Vandas
          • Light Throws Shadows
          • An Egg Hatches Out a Flame
          • Rain Man
        • Olga Orozco
          • Twilight (Between Dog and Wolf)
        • Blanca Varela
          • Dance Card
        • Marianne van Hirtum
          • In Those Rooms...
          • Abandon, Meeting, Orgasm, Seduce, Vice: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism
        • Leonora Carrington
          • Comments on The Temptation of St. Anthony
          • On Magic Art: A Conversation, 1996
        • Kay Sage
          • Painter and Writer
          • An Observation
          • The Window
          • Chinoiserie
          • Fragrance
        • Mimi Parent
          • Depraved Person, License, Masturbation, Voyeur: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism
        • Sonia Sekula
          • Notes from a Journal: The Occurrence of Meeting a Face Contra a Face
        • Remedios Varo
          • A Recipe: How to Produce Erotic Dreams
        • 5. The Making of "May '68" and Its Sequels
          • Introduction: Women in the Surrealist Resurgence of the 1960s and 1970s
          • Nora Mitrani
            • In Defense of Surrealism
          • Nelly Kaplan
            • Memoirs of a Lady Sheet Diviner
            • At the Women Warriors' Table
            • Enough or Still More
            • All Creation Is Androgynous: An Interview
          • Nicole Espagnol
            • Female Socket
            • Heartstopping
            • The Conclusion Is Not Drawn
            • The Wind Turns
          • Annie Le Brun
            • Introduction to Drop Everything!
          • Giovanna
            • Where Are We in Relation to Surrealism?
            • Baking Chocolate and Dialectics
            • What Do I...