Uses personal narratives to highlight the development of feminist sport studies.

Looks at how violent women characters disrupt cinematic narrative and challenge cultural ideals.

Interrogates the comfortable and stable contours of "home," asking what it means to women in different social, class, sexual, ethnic, and racial contexts in different times and places.

Brings the writings of de Cleyre out of undeserved obscurity.

Links radical feminist writings of the 1960s and 1970s to contemporary online women's networks.

Explores how Rich's work has influenced feminist scholarship on motherhood.

Crucial conversations about feminist theories and how they can fall apart, rupture, and fragment.

Offers critical assessments of feminism from the 1960s to the present.

Probes the complementary yet contested relations between psychoanalysis and feminism, emphasizing the plural nature of each.

An entertainingly satirical vision of today's academy, in which a woman academic lands, with her cat, in a university, largely populated by males.

Reads a wide range of contemporary feminist theorists to show how they invest in sound as a medium of critical thought.

This is a haunting experimental novel about a daughter raped by her father, and the consequences of repressing this memory. In a parallel narrative, the father analyzes the posthumous writings of his daughter for clues to her thoughts and behavior.

Examines the dynamic relationship between authority and gender in contemporary, experimental narrative works by four Latin American women writers: Diamela Eltit of Chile, Nelida Pinon of Brazil, Reina Roffe of Argentina, and Cristina Peri Rossi of Uruguay.

This book shows how eighteenth-century women's literature redefined nation and culture in class and gendered terms.

Feminism, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic assembles thirteen essays on the intersection of Bakhtin's narrative theory, especially his concept of dialogism. The book explores the dimensions of using Bakhtin ...

This book reflects the most current scholarship on states, socioeconomic development, and feminist theory to emerge this decade. Addressed are issues such as the role of state policies and ideologies ...

The core source of this book is the work of Emmanuel Levinas. Beginning with a chapter on speaking and the other, three lead chapters focus on Levinas' account of the face of the other. These chapters ...

This readable, informed, and insightful book illustrates the effects Virginia Woolf's feminism had on her art. Woolf's committed feminism combined with her integrity as an artist and her ability to metamorphose ...