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Introduction1.. Academies1.. In Praise of Theory: The Case for Women's Studies (1982), Mary Evans2.. Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression (1984), bell hooks3.. Aesthetic and Feminist Theory: Rethinking Women's Cinema (1985), Teresa de Lauretis4.. Speaking/Writing/Feminism (1986), Cora Kaplan5.. Me and My Shadow (1987), Jane Tompkins6.. French Feminism in an International Frame (1987), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak7.. Not One of the Family: The Repression of the Other Woman in Feminist Theory (1989), Helena Michie8.. A Criticism of Our Own: Autonomy and Assimilation in Afro-American and Feminist Literary Theory, Elaine Showalter9.. The Race for Theory (1989), Barbara Christian10.. Notes for an Analysis (1989), Alice Jardine11.. The Truth that Never Hurts: Black Lesbaians in Fiction in the 1980s (1990), Barbara Smith12.. Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses (1991), Chandra Talpade Mohanty13.. Paradoxes of Participation, Anne Phillips14.. Feminist Confessions: The Last Degrees are the Hardest (1991), Nancy Miller15.. Postcard from the Edge: Thoughts on the 'Feminist Theory: An International Debate' Conference held at Glasgwo University, Scotland, 12-15 July 1991 (1992), Susannah Radstone16.. Around 1981: Academic Feminist Literary Theory (1992), Jane Gallop17.. Words and Things: Materialism and Method in Contemporary Feminist Analysis (1992), Michele Barrett18.. Changing the Subject (1993), Naomi Scheman19.. Materializing Locations: Images and Selves (1993), Elspeth Probyn20.. The Place of Women's Studies in the Contemporary University (1994), Anna Yeatman2.. Epistemologies21.. In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan22.. The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism (1983), Nancy Hartsock23.. Is there a Feminist Method? (1986), Sandra Harding24.. Postmodernism and Gender Relations in Feminist Theory (1987), Jane Flax25.. Thoroughly Postmodern Feminist Criticism (1989), Elizabeth Wright26.. Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory (1989), Nancy Chodorow27.. Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology (1989), Alison Jagger28.. The IDeal of Impartiality and the Civic Public (1990), Iris Young29.. Toward an Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology (1991), Patricia Hill Collins30.. Modernism, Postmodernism, Gender: The View from Feminism (1992), Patricia Wauch31.. The Generalized and the Concrete Other (1992)3.. Subjectivities32.. One is not Born a Woman (1981), Monique Wittig33.. Black Women and Feminism (1982), bell hooks34.. Psychoanalysis and the Polis (1982), Juliz Kristeva35.. Sorties (1986), Helene Cixous36.. Woman: The One and the Many (1988), Elizabeth Spelman37.. Authenticity and the Writing Cure: Reading Some Migrant Women's Writing (1988), Sneja Gunew38.. Am I That Name? Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History (1988), Denise Riley39.. Feminist, Female, Feminine (1989), Toril Moi40.. The 'Risk' of Essence (1989), Diana Fuss41.. Still Crazy after all these Years (1989), Rachel Bowlby42.. Their 'symbolic' exists, it holds power—we, the sowers of disorder, know it onlytoo well (1989)43.. Recovering Women in History from Feminist Deconstructionism (1990), Liz Stanley44.. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire (1990), Judith Butler45.. Feminism, Humanism, Postmodernism (1990), Kate Soper46.. Love, Mourning and Metaphor: Terms of Identity (1992), Kadiatu Kanneh47.. Psychoanalysis and the Imaginary Body (1995), Elizabeth Grosz48.. The Other: Woman (1996), Luce Irigaray4.. Sexualities49.. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (1980), Adrienne Rich50.. Pornography (1981), Andrea Dworkin51.. Not a Moral Issue (1984), Catharine MacKinnon52.. Pleasure and Danger: Toward a Politics of Sexuality (1984), Carole Vance53.. 'Returning to Manderley'—Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class (1984), Alison Light54.. Sexual Politics and Sexual Meaning (1985), Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick55.. A Central Issue: Secual Violence and Feminist Theory (1988), Liz Kelly56.. Modern Woman's Holy Grail (1992), Rosalind Coward, Slim and Sexy57.. Queer Notions, Cherry Symth58.. Queer Theory and the War of the Sexes (1993), Mary McIntosh5.. Visualities6.. TechnologiesNotesBiographical DetailsFurther ReadingIndex