...Arthur Redding The figure of the fugitive woman radical has occupied a curiously important place in the American popular imagination. Early depictions of women whose political sympathies have drawn them into radical activism and terrorist plots include Susan Isaacson in E. L. Doctorow’s The Book...

...Devoney Looser 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...

...Vasantha Sambamurti Copyright © 2021 Vasantha Sambamurti 2021 Vasantha Sambamurti I Inspire Song in White Women I inspire song in white women. Unblinking they sing at me: Doll! Pet! Knit this child a store-bought dress. Daily I dream of scooping her up. Skin sherbet smooth. Store her...

...Devoney Looser Devoney Looser Why I’m Still Writing Women’s Literary History Recently several colleagues asked me to defend my scholarly work. One of my areas of expertise is early modern women’s writings, and these colleagues apparently found that troubling. Indeed, what...

...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...

... Apartment Stories and the homosocial relations among women in Victorian literature in her book Between Women . Last, it discusses coediting the new journal Public Books . © 2017 Virginia Tech 2017 surface reading politics of criticism critical method comparative literature feminist theory...

.... Frozen River ’s answerability is to an audience of independent filmgoers, especially women, since the film depicts the growing bonds between a white woman and an indigenous woman. The white character is not a savior to native people; rather, the women partner as equals. Ultimately, the analysis...

..., and Angelus Silisius—but through what he does not read: the writings of women mystics, here more specifically those of Hadewijch of Brabant. © 2013 Virginia Tech 2013 Works Cited Coward Harold Foshay Toby , eds. 1992 . Derrida and Negative Theology . Albany : State University of New...

...Katie Hogan Katie Hogan Superserviceable Feminism Women's lives are spent in service and servitude, learning to be superserviceable, being at the service of others, being serviced. We are a service industry, serving husbands, lovers, bosses, children, aged parents...

...). Hence a survey of the writing on female masochism turns up wildly diverging propositions: masochism is a natural urge in women; epitomizes women's oppression under patriarchy; is an empowering form of sexual experimentation; does not exist. Current approaches to masochism draw on disparate...

...Jeffrey J. Williams © 2008 the minnesota review 2008 Jeffrey J. Williams Reconstructing Culture: An Interview with Hazel Carby By the 1980s, literary studies had begun to recognize traditions of African-American literature and of women’s literature. But the emerging...

... York : Knopf , 2003 . Steinem Gloria . “The Kaleidoscope of Memory.” Women on Afghan Women . Ed. Mehta Sunita . New York : Palgrave , 2002 . Zanganeh Lila Azam . “Introduction.” My Sister, Guard Your Veil, My Brother, Guard Your Eyes: Uncensored Iranian Voices . Ed...

... in Paris in the 1960s, Out of Breath. Miller’s early work is part of the feminist revision of the canon and creation of a new literary history. Her first book, The Heroine’s Text: Readings in the French and English Novel, 1722-1782 (Columbia UP, 1980), examined the fate of women...

... the welfare of one’s students, colleagues, and institutions, is particularly expected of women, and the demand is often intensified when racial, ethnic, class, and sexuality dynamics are at play. However, in the downsized service economy of higher education, the self-sacrificing professor...

... a melan- cholic attachment to blackness in its patriotic form. As she learns of 70 the minnesota review Asian businesses wrecked and looted Asian women raped as part of a military coup, Patel (2010) realizes that third-generation Kenyan Asian will never be Kenyan enough that all my patriotic fervor...

... (Blackwell, 1994), is a rich study of the social and institutional contexts that Beauvoir traversed to become an intellectual when there were almost no other women in that position. Following from some of the philosophical questions that Beauvoir raised about the status of women, Moi subsequently...

...Greg Robinson © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Robinson Greg Robinson Remembering Lillian Robinson Lillian Sara Robinson, feminist scholar, critic, and activist, Professor of Women’s Studies, troublemaker and mensch, died...

... dominance and animals’ oppression are linked by the way that both women and animals function as absent referents in meat eating, and that “feminist theory logically contains a vegetarian critique…just as vegetarianism covertly challenges patriarchal society” (17). Now in three US editions...

... symposium, the pontificating references to “men of taste,” “men of feeling,” “man’s task” that are as plentiful as grass seed throughout. While I smile appreciatively at Leslie Fiedler’s brio Massé 229 and insight, I also ruefully see that no women...

....’” European Journal of Women's Studies 15 , no. 1 : 23 – 39 . Barad Karen . 1998 . “Getting Real: Technoscientific Practices and the Materialization of Reality.” Differences 10 , no. 2 : 87 – 128 . ———. 2003 . “Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes...