Feminist Studies / Critical Studies

"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 Women's 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 O'Neale, Sheila Radford-Hill, Cherrie Moraga, Biddy Martin, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, and Mary Russo.

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

Preface

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

Teresa de Lauretis

2. What's New in Women's History

Linda Gordon

3. Writing History: Language, Class, and Gender

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

4. Lab Coat: Robe of Innocence or Klansman's Sheet?

5. Making Gender Visible in the Pursuit of Nature's Secrets

Evelyn Fox Keller

6. A Desire of One's Own: Psychoanalytic Feminism and Intersubjective Space

Jessica Benjamin

7. Changing the