Felski presents a critical account of current American and European feminist literary theory, and analyzes contemporary fiction by women to show that no theoris

Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s thro

Asserts that the current half-hearted attempts to patch up the excruciating tensions due to the sometimes morally unacceptable way women are treated in the Cath