...Heather Steffen © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Heather Steffen Vegan Feminist: An Interview with Carol J. Adams In her 1990 The Sexual Politics of Meat (Continuum) Carol J. Adams brought together the worlds of feminist and vegetarian thinking. She argued that male...

...Janell Watson In this interview, feminist historian Joan Wallach Scott discusses her first encounters with critical theory, the early days of teaching women's history, her turn to the history of the present, her work on the history of feminism, her book on the Muslim veil, and her current project...

... considers the vexed relationship between the commons and state sovereignty, the way in which the common functions as a placeholder for revolutionary subjectivity, the significance of ecology for the commons and vice versa, and the importance of queer, indigenous, feminist, and minoritarian commons...

...Vanita Reddy; Ashna Ali; Christopher Ian Foster; Supriya M. Nair This article examines the queer feminist Afro-Asian poetics and politics of spoken word and performance artist Shailja Patel’s 2006 onewoman show and 2010 prose poem, both titled Migritude . Patel’s migritude poetics resonates...

...Whitney Stark In this semimanifesto, I approach how understandings of quantum physics and cyborgian bodies can (or always already do) ally with feminist anti-oppression practices long in use. The idea of the body (whether biological, social, or of work) is not stagnant, and new materialist...

... or sixty years. Smith describes her foray into feminist activism in the 1960s; her love of English poetry but disaffection with the intellectual provincialism of English departments in the 1970s; her increased occupation during the 1980s and 1990s with problems of aesthetics, linguistics, and value theory...

... Theory and the Displacement of Politics ; Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt ; Democracy and the Foreigner ; Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy ; and, most recently, Antigone, Interrupted. © 2013 Virginia Tech 2013 Work Cited Rawls John . 1971 . A Theory of Justice...

... of different forms of bad affect needs to be factored into Ahmed’s critical discussions of specific unhappy types—the feminist killjoy, the unhappy queer, and the melancholic migrant—within her chosen contexts of literature, film, and popular culture. “Ask Me If I Care”: Work, Injustice, and Other People’s...

...Janell Watson Kaja Silverman's body of work spans the disciplines of English, film studies, semiotics, psychoanalytic criticism, feminist theory, masculinity studies, and art history. In this interview, Silverman discusses her career as an interdisciplinarian, beginning with the days when...

... . Orr Catherine M. Lichtenstein Diane . “ The Politics of Feminist Locations: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Studies .” NWSAJournal 16.3 ( 2004 ): 1 - 14 . Valian Virginia . “ Beyond Gender Schemas: Improving the Advancement of Women in Academia .” NWSAJournal 16.1 ( 2004...

..., on the contrary, feminism has enriched the reading of literature. Felski's books include Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change (Harvard UP, 1989), The Gender of Modernity (Harvard UP, 1995), and Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture (NYU P, 2000...

... , 2008 . Marsden Jean . “Beyond Recovery: Feminism and the Future of Eighteenth-Century Studies.” Feminist Studies 28 . 3 ( 2002 ): 657 – 662 . Moi Toril . “What Is an Intellectual Woman?: An Interview with Toril Moi.” Conducted by Williams Jeffrey J. . the minnesota...

... strand of materialism that rejects in various ways the cultural turn’s performativity of embodiment. Yet as the book’s editors observe, strands of feminist philoso- phies have already done this before SR: “The provocations of ‘specula- tive turn’ philosophers (generally, all men) to post...

... of contemporary criticism. She was trained as a structuralist, in the 1970s became a feminist, and since the 90s has moved to memoir. She has been one of the most astute commentators on the rise of personally-inflected criticism and on the longer tradition of autobiography, in a series of books...

... brief, pointed, and bestselling Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory (Methuen). Although a comparative study assessing key figures of French and American feminisms, the book became known for criticizing the essentialism of the American wing and for bringing news...

... of such cultural data means thinking about the changing connotations of female masochism. Feminist scholarship has relied heavily on psychoanalytical theory to explore the aetiology and meaning of masochism. However, while psychoanalysis may shed light on the psychic origins of masochism, it can tell us...

... . Devoney Looser Power Through Comics (on Lillian S. Robinson, Wonder Women: Feminisms and Super heroes [Routledge, 2004]) Those of us who know the work, now spanning three decades, of feminist and cultural critic Lillian S. Robinson may be surprised to find that her latest book...

... Marjorie Matlock Jann Walkowitz Rebecca L. , ed. Media Spectacles . New York : Routledge , 1993 . Johnson Barbara . The Critical Difference . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 1980 . —. “ Lesbian Spectacles .” The Feminist Difference . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1998...

... be taken seriously. So there is a way in which that ground is now taken for granted. Those of us who were excavating work by black women eventually would find each other and constitute ourselves as a sort of black feminist literary cohort in the US, but early in the 1980s it was very...

...Greg Robinson Robinson Greg Robinson Remembering Lillian Robinson Lillian Sara Robinson, feminist scholar, critic, and activist, Professor of Women’s Studies, troublemaker and mensch, died on September 20, 2006. She was born April...