By Daphne Patai (NHC Fellow, 1990–91) and Noretta Koertge Feminists have often called Women's Studies "the academic arm of the women's movement". With over 600 Women's Studies programs in existence throughout the United States, academic feminism is now a strong presence on college campuses – and beyond. But, as Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge charge … Continued
Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (NHC Fellow, 1988–90) A unique and comprehensive collection of 26 literary essays that provides real evidence of the rich cultural history of black women in America. Black women's writing has finally emerged as one of the most dynamic fields of American literature. Here, leading literary critics–both male and female, black … Continued
Edited by Marie-Rose Logan (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) and Peter L. Rudnytsky In Contending Kingdoms, Marie-Rose Logan and Peter L. Rudnytsky bring together important critics working in English and French Renaissance literature to provide a lively debate that is at once crossdisciplinary and crosscultural. The editors have organized the book's fifteen essays into three sections that … Continued
By Cynthia Eagle Russett (NHC Fellow, 1979–80) One scarcely knows whether to laugh or cry. The spectacle presented in Cynthia Russett’s splendid book of nineteenth-century white male scientists and thinkers earnestly trying to prove women inferior to men—thereby providing, along with “savages” and “idiots,” an evolutionary buffer between men and animals—is by turns appalling, amusing, and … Continued
Edited by Linda S. Kauffman (NHC Fellow, 1983–84)
By Toril Moi (NHC Fellow, 1994–95)
By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) In arguing that feminism has neither adequately acknowledged its ties to individualism nor squarely faced the extent to which many of its campaigns for social justice are based on the insistence of rights for the individual over good of the community, this study analyzes current political theory and its … Continued
By Harriet Guest (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) During the second half of the eighteenth century, the social role of educated women and the nature of domesticity were the focus of widespread debate in Britain. The emergence of an identifiably feminist voice in that debate is the subject of Harriet Guest’s new study, which explores how small … Continued
Edited by Marilyn Frye (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) and Sarah Lucia Hoagland This open-ended anthology is a journey into the very canon that Mary Daly has argued to be patriarchal and demeaning to women. This volume deauthorizes the official canon of Western philosophy and disrupts a related story told by some feminists who claim that Daly’s … Continued
Edited by James P. Sterba (NHC Fellow, 2001–02) This anthology is the first textbook to put the historical development of Western social and political philosophy into both feminist and multicultural perspectives. The aim of the text is twofold: to provide an introductory sampling of some of the classical works of the Western tradition in social … Continued