Over the last two decades, women have organized against the almost routine violence that
shapes their lives. Drawing from the strength of shared experience, women have recognized …

What is Critical Race Theory and why is it under fire from the political right? This
foundational essay collection, which defines key terms and includes case studies, is the …

The profound political intervention of feminism has been… to redefine the very nature of
what is deemed political…. The literary ramifications of this shift involve the discovery of the …

Over the past decade, mainstream feminist theory has repeatedly and urgently cautioned
against arguments which assert the existence of fundamental—or essential—differences …

I appreciate the great cooperation of the staff of the Supreme Court Library and of the
Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress. The former made available to me …

Such is the dilemma of the woman speaker. That the categories of patriarchal language
distort what she might like to say is no longer in question. Whether she is a literary critic or …

Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the
slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white southerners' fears of …

In 1986, the Supreme Court dealt a harsh blow to the gay-rights movement by deciding in
Bowers v. Hardwick I that the right to privacy in the United States Constitution did not prevent …

This anthology provides the definitive theoretical sources of contemporary thinking about
identity, including explorations of race, class, gender, and nationality. Explores the long and …

Feminist scholars and activists have long sought to reform rape laws and evidence rules in
order to increase the number of successful rape prosecutions in the United States. In partial …