"Papers presented at a conference in April 1985 at the Center for Twentieth-Century Studies of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Feminist studies/critical studies : issues, terms, and contexts / by Teresa de Lauretis – What’s new in women’s history / by Linda Gordon – Writing history : language, class, and gender / by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg – Lab coat : robe of innocence or Klansman’s sheet? / Ruth Bleier – Making gender visible in the pursuit of nature’s secrets / by Evelyn Fox Keller – A desire of one’s own : psychoanalytic feminism and intersubjective space / by Jessica Benjamin – changing the subject : authorship, writing, and the reader / by Nancy K. Miller – Feminism and the power of interpretation : some critical readings / by Tania Modleski – Inhibiting midwives, usurping creators : the struggling emergence of black women in American fiction / by Sondra O’Neale – Considering feminism as a model for social change / By Sheila Radford-Hill – From a long line of Vendidas : Chicanas and feminism / by Cherrie Moraga – Feminism politics : what’s home got to do with it? / by Biddy Martin and Chandra Talpade Mohanty – Female grotesques : carnival and theory / by Mary Russo.