...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...

...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 of...

...Devoney Looser © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Works Cited Backscheider Paula R. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 2005 . Browning Barrett Elizabeth Browning Robert . The...

...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...

... color. 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...

... 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 2005 the minnesota review 2005 Works Cited American Association of University Women . Tenure Denied: Cases of Sex Discrimination in Academia . Ed. Dyer Susan K. . Wasington, DC : American Association of University Women Educational Foundation and the American...

...Shen Haobo © 2017 Liang Yujing 2017 Shen Haobo Translated from the Chinese by Liang Yujing The Death Issue in Our Place Our place is a vast countryside where crops, men and women grow as well as their livestock. In our place, many women commit suicide. Some...

... that dress, red lipstick to pucker your lips for that kiss you should give him, even after you learned he’d enlist. Did you see each ticket had a snide remark etched on the back: what clothes mean to women, what women mean to men. I wish I’d known you back then, I...

... smaller figures, the same shape but painted in different patterns. We are like this, too, we women, painted shells that house one another, person inside person inside person. A dizzy perpetuity. The world, doll in doll, releases gradually —​we emerge, webbed in blood...

... York : Prometheus , 1983 . Caplan Paula J. The Myth of Women's Masochism. New York : E. P. Dutton , 1985 . Deleuze Gilles . “ Coldness and Cruelty .” Masochism . New York : Zone , 1989 . Henderson Mae G. “ The Stories of O(Dessa): Stories of Complicity and...

... held their women when everything else they've touched becomes dust. 2005 the minnesota review 2005 ...

..., gleefully dodging his kiss. Shrieking school kids, only half his heft, wiggle fingers through chainlink, craving his softness. Gray ones are stirred by memories pooled deep in his hazel eyes. And women— quick-stepping through the city park— are for a...

... the benefit of others, including 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...

... 2003 novel The Bathhouse. Iranian and Afghan expatriate writers, despite obvious differences in the recent histories of the two countries, share a concern for the plight of women under intensely repressive Islamic regimes, and a disproportionate number of the published expatriates have...

...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...

... Director of Women’s Studies at Carlow University. She has published Women Take Care: Gender, Race, and the Culture of AIDS (Cornell UP, 2001) and the edited collection Gendered Epidemic: Representations of Women in the Age of AIDS (with Nancy L. Roth; Routledge, 1998). She and Michelle...

... trying to name the prettiest aunt because it’s prettiness that counts when it comes to aunts, and to sunsets, to women poets, and feminist selfies, the golden lioness. Sisterhood is really something. Cousinhood is really something. Rooms full of women poets on the Internet in the glass of...

... 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...