Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques

Talking Gender assesses the state of women’s studies in the 1990s. The contributors write from the perspective of their own academic disciplines and experiences, but they also address more general issues of women’s lives and circumstances. The result is a broad picture of women’s studies and feminist scholarship, which emerge as a rich, if sometimes dissonant, chorus of voices. These original essays cover a range of topics and a variety of times and places: images of women inherited from Ro...