Synopses & Reviews
Selected from the first thirty issues of
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, the thirteen articles in this volume indicate salient trends in feminist scholarship since 1975. Covering a wide variety of disciplines, this collection is representative of that scholarship, which has permanently altered accustomed patterns of thought by challenging basic theoretical frameworks in many academic disciplines. The contributors to this volume are Joan Kelly-Gadol, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Fatima Mernissi, Myra Jehlen, Elaine H. Pagels, Evelyn Fox Keller, Donna Haraway, Adrienne Rich, Diane K. Lewis, Heidi Hartmann, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Judith Herman, and Lisa Hirchman, and Helene Cixous.
About the Author
Elizabeth Abel is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
Emily K. Abel is the author of
Terminal Degrees: The Job Crisis in Higher Education.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Social Relation of the Sexes: Methodological Implications of Women's History
Joan Kelly-Gadol
The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
Women, Saints, and Sanctuaries
Fatima Mernissi
Archimedes and the Paradox of Feminist Criticism
Myra Jehlen
What Became of God the Mother? Conflicting Images of God in Early Christianity
Elaine H. Pagels
Feminism and Science
Evelyn Fox Keller
Animal Sociology and a Natural Economy of the Body Politic, Part I: A Political Physiology of Dominance
Donna Haraway
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
Adrienne Rich
A Response to Inequality: Black Women, Racism, and Sexism
Diane K. Lewis
Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Job Segregation by Sex
Heidi Hartmann
Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory
Catharine A. MacKinnon
Father-Daughter Incest
Judith Herman and Lisa Hirschman
The Laugh of Medusa
Helene Cixous