... imagined she could write and the kind of life she could live as one keen to bridge Black feminism and medicine. “Black (W)holes” is one of the first academic writings where Bailey saw herself reflected, both in the content presented and in the identities held by Hammonds. Black alphabet children of Spelman...

... : Cambridge UP , 1982 . Sargent Lydia . Women and Revolution . Boston : South End , 1981 . Spelman Elizabeth V. Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought . Boston : Beacon , 1988 . Weedon Chris . Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory . Oxford...

.... The Black Woman Cross-Culturally . Cambridge : Schenkman Pub. Co. , 1981 . BEVERLY GUY-SHEFTALL WITH EVELYNN M. HAMMONDS Whither Black Women's Studies. Interview BeverlY Guy-Shejtall is the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of English and Women's Studies at Spelman College and the founding director...

... : Crossing , 1984 . 110 - 13 . Lugones María C. “ Playfulness, World’-Travelling, and Loving Perception .” Anzaldúa , Making Face 390 - 402 . Lugones María C. , and Spelman Elizabeth V. Spelman. “Have We Got a Theory for You! Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism...

... while trying to preserve the intellectual integrity of one's program is something that becomes apparent as you read each contributor's work. Part of Guy-Sheftall's enthusiasm for black women's studies at Spelman might be that she has a secure space within the college and an audience that she interacts...

... and Keller 9 – 43 . Spacks Patricia Meyers . The Female Imagination . New York : Knopf , 1975 . Spelman Elizabeth . The Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought . Boston : Beacon , 1988 . Spivak Gayatri . “ Can the Subaltern Speak? ” Nelson...

... Spelman Elizabeth V. . `` In Context .'' Southern California Law Review 63 ( 1990 ): 1597 – 652 . Okin Susan Moller . Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? Ed. Cohen Joshua Howard Matthew Nussbaum Martha C. . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1999 . Ostrow Ronald J...

... of Philosophical Papers. 2 vols, to date. 1991 - . Saussure Ferdinand de . Course in General Linguistics . Trans. Harris Roy . Ed. Bally Charles and Sechehaye Albert . London : Duckworth , 1983 . Spelman Elizabeth V. The Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion...

... . Spec. issue of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 9.3 (Fall 1997 ). Sharpe, Jenny. Allegories of Empire: The Figure of Woman in the Colonial Text . Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1993 . Spelman, Elizabeth V. Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought...

... the pages ofcurrentfeminist discourse, reflecting the degree to which "difference" has come of age in the academy. Yet, some scholars have accused the discourse ofpaying no more than "lip service to the significance ofrace and class, racism and classism"(Spelman 81), in particular, as it continues to treat...

... su Hegel . Milan : Scritti di Rivolta Femminile , 1974 . Lugones Maria C. and Spelman Elizabeth V. “ Have We Got a Theory for You!: Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for ‘the Woman's Voice.’ ” Women's Studies International Forum 6 . 6 ( 1983 ): 573 - 81...

... of the Feminine . Urbana : U of Illinois P , 1988 . Spelman Elizabeth V. Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought . Boston : Beacon , 1988 . Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty . “ Can the Subaltern Speak? ” Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture . Ed. Nelson Cary...

... with the body, she argues, is because “to attempt to study the femininity of a Greek hero at the level of his sexual identity requires defining femininity in the framework of what, from Hesiod on, constitutes a woman: a body” (30). Elizabeth Spelman, coming to similar conclusions about the close association...

... . New York : Random House , 1977 . Bambara Toni Cade . “ What It Is I Think I’m Doing Anyway .” 1979 . Unpubl. ms. Toni Cade Bambara Collection , Spelman College , Atlanta . Box 7 . Beckles Madelyne , perf. This Bridge Called My Back . Art Gallery of Ontario , Toronto . 4...

...; Korsmeyer, Making , esp. 66, 114–15, 134–45, 190–93, 200–203, 222–23; and Saito. I am grateful to Ellen Rooney, Elizabeth Weed, an anonymous difference s reviewer, and Elizabeth V. Spelman for their very helpful comments and suggestions, from which this essay has benefited considerably. My thanks...

... in the context of the insti- tutions of culture. I thank Elizabeth V. Spelman and Suzanne Barnard for many helpful conversations on this material and for comments on this essay. I am also grateful to Nalini Bhushan...