Feminist Studies / Critical Studies [Paperback]

This wonderful book does nothing less than to create the next stage of feminist thought. Catharine R. Stimpson

De Lauretis provides a way of thinking about feminism that accepts rather than tries to resolve differences, that refuses fixed definitional categories and insists instead on the contradictory and changing meaning of gendered identities. The Womens Review of Books

This is not a new collection but it is still one of the best. Exceptional Human Experience

The essays in this collection represent very recent developments in feminist research and writing in the areas of history, scientific discourse, literary criticism, and cultural theory.

The contributors are: Teresa de Lauretis, Linda Gordon, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Ruth Bleier, Evelyn Fox Keller, Jessica Benjamin, Nancy K. Miller, Tania Modleski, Sondra ONeale, Sheila Radford-Hill, Cherrie Moraga, Biddy Martin, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, and Mary Russo.

Preface

1. Feminist Studies/Critical Studies: Issues, Terms, and Contexts
Teresa de Lauretis

2. Whats New in Womens History
Linda Gordon

3. Writing History: Language, Class, and Gender
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

4. Lab Coat: Robe of Innocence or Klansmans Sheet?

5. Making Gender Visible in the Pursuit of Natures Secrets
Evelyn Fox Keller

6. A Desire of Ones Own: Psychoanalytic Feminism and Intersubjective Space
Jessica Benjamin

7. Changing the Subject: Authorship, Writing, and the Reader
Nancy K. Miller

8. Feminism and the Power of Interpretation: Some Critical Readings
Tania Modleski

9. Inhibiting Midwives, Usurping Creators: The Struggling Emergence of Black Women in American Fiction

10. Considering Feminism as a Model for Social Change
Sheila Radford-Hill

11.From a Long Line of Vendidas: Chicanas and Feminism
Cherrie Moraga

12. Feminsit Politics: Whats Home Got to Do with It?
Biddy Martin and Chandra Talpade Mohanl£!