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Mimi Abramovitz

Special Interests: Poor women, poverty and equality, welfare state theory and policy, social activism and social change. Currently directing a study funded by the United Way of NYC on the impact of welfare reform on social service agencies in New York City. Conducting research for a book on activism among poor and working-class women in the USA during the 20th century.

Selected Publications:

Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States. 2nd rev. ed. NY: Monthly Review Press, 2000.

Regulating The Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy From Colonial Times to the Present. 2nd rev. ed. Boston: South End Press, 1996.

“Toward a Framework for Understanding Activism Among Poor and Working Class Women in Twentieth Century America.” Whose Welfare? Ed. Gwendolyn Mink. Ithaca: Cornell Univesrity Press, 1999. 214-248.

“Playing By The Rules: Welfare Reform and the New Authoritarian State.” (with Ann Withorn) Without Justice For All. Ed. Adolph Reed, Jr. Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 1999. 151-174.

“Fighting Back: From The Legislature to the Academy to the Streets.” A New Introduction To Poverty: The Role of Race, Power and Politics. Eds. L. Kushnick & J Jennings. New York: New York University Press, 1999. 217-241.

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Meena Alexander

Special Interests: Poetry and Poetics. Questions of gender, migration, memory and autobiography. Postcolonial writing and questions of trauma and displacement. South Asian and Asian American writing. Early English Romanticism and the connections between Romanticism and Postcoloniality.

Selected Publications:

Raw Silk. (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, forthcoming Spring 2004). [Poetry].

Illiterate Heart. (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2002) [Poetry]. [Winner of the 2002 PEN Open Book Award].

Manhattan Music (San Francisco: Murcury House, 1997). [Fiction].

The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience. (Boston: Southend Press, 1996).

Fault Lines. New York: Feminist Press, 1993; India: Penguin, 1994. [Selected as one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 1993.] [Memoir]. New expanded tenth anniversary edition, Feminist Press, 2003.

Nampally Road (San Francisco: Murcury House, 1991). [Fiction].

Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley. London: Macmillan, 1989. Lanham, MD: Barnes and Noble, 1989.


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Bonnie Anderson

Special Interests: International feminism, history of feminism, women in modern Europe, history of sexuality.

Selected Publications:

A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present. (with Judith P. Zinsser.) 2 vols. Oxford UP, 2000.

Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement, 1830-1860. Oxford UP, 2000.

“The Lid Comes Off: International Radical Feminism and the Revolutions of 1848.” NWSA Journal 10:2 (Summer, 1998) 1-12. [lead article].

Prologue, Historia de la misoginia. By E.Bosch, V. Ferrer, & M.Gili. Barcelona: Antropos, 1999.

“Les Femmes de 1848 dans les Etats Allemands.” [“Women of 1848 in the German States.”] Encyclopedie Historique et Politique des Femmes. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1997.

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Penelope E. Andrews


Special Interests:
International Human Rights Law, Torts, Lawyering and Critical Perspectives on Race and the Law.

Selected Publications:

“Making Room for Critical Race Theory in International Law: Some Practical Pointers.” Villanova Law Review (forthcoming Spring 2001).

“The Constitutional Court Provides Succor for Victims of Domestic Violence: S v. Baloyi.” 16 South African Journal of Human Rights (2000).

“Globalization, Human Rights and Critical Race Feminism: Voices from the Margins.” 3 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 373 (Summer 2000).

“A Grand Exercise in Forgiveness or Justice Held Hostage to Truth: South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.” (Review Essay) 24 Melbourne University Law Review 236 (Summer 2000).

"Issues Affecting Aboriginal Women in Australia.” Women and International Human Rights Law. (Kelly Askin and Doreanne Koenig eds. 2000).


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Carol Berkin

Special Interests:
Early American and Revolutionary era women's history.

Selected Publications:

Women's Voices/Women's Lives: Documents in Early American History. Northeastern University Press, 1998.

First Generations: Women in Colonial America. Hill and Wang, 1996.

Women of America: A History. Ed. with Mary Beth Norton. Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

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Roslyn Wallach Bologh

Special Interests: Local and global political economic news and cultural consciousness, monistic, dialectical sociological theory of social and cultural change. Classical Sociological Theory; Political Economy (global and local) and Socio-Cultural Change (including change related to gender); Historical-Comparative sociology.

Selected Publications:

Love or Greatness.

Max Weber and Masculine Thinking: A Feminist Inquiry.

Dialectical Phenomenology
: Marx's Method.

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Rachel M. Brownstein

Special Interests: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English literature; biography.

Selected Publications:

Becoming a Heroine: Reading about Women in Novels. Viking, 1982; Penguin, 1984; Columbia University Press, 1994.

Tragic Muse: Rachel of the Comedie-Francaise. Knopf, 1993; Duke University Press, 1995).

"Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice.” The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen. Eds. Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster. Cambridge UP, 1997.

"Interrupted Reading.” Confessions of the Critics. Ed. H. Aram Veeser. Routledge, 1995.

“What Becomes a Legend.” The American Prospect. August 28, 2000.

Review of Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette, by Judith Thurman. The Boston Sunday Globe. October 31, 1999.

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Mary Ann Caws

Special Interests: Modernism; comparative poetics and poetry; art and literature in America, England, and France; translation and translation theory; contemporary aesthetics; the essay; autobiography; Bloomsbury; Dada and surrealism.

Selected Publications:

Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends. (with Sarah Bird Wright.) New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Surrealism and the Art of Display. Wexner Center, Fall 1997.

The Surrealist Painters and Poets
. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1999.

Modernist Manifestos. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

André Breton, Break of Day. (Co-translator and co-editor with Mark Polizzotti.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

Mallarméé in Prose. (Co-translator and editor.) New York: New Directions, forthcoming.

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Norah C. Chase

Special Interests: American Women's Left-wing History, Working Women, Biography, Women's Studies, Remedial and Interdisciplinary Curriculum. Co-facilitator of the Women Writing Women's Lives of the CUNY Graduate Center.

Selected Publications:

Forthcoming biography of Elba Chase Nelson, my communist grandmother, Michigan State University Press.

"Cookies and Communism." Red Diapers: Growing Up in the Communist Left. Eds. Linn Shapiro and Judy Kaplan. University of Illinois Press, 1998.

A biographical entry on "Charlotta Spears Bass" (editor of the oldest Black newspaper on the West Coast). American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1998.

Co-author with Paul C. Mishler. "The Solidarity Project: Integrating Labor Studies, Writing, and Fieldwork." Radical History. Fall, 1998.

Project Co-humanist "Indictment: Rights & Reds in New Hampshire," a Video Project by the N.H. Council on the Humanities, the NH Bar Association and Cable 12 TV, 1992.

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Patricia T. Clough

Special Interests: Feminist Theory, Social Theory and cultural criticism of science, mass media and cybertechnology.

Selected Publications:

The End(s) of Ethnography: From Realism to Social Criticism. Newbury Park. CA: Sage, 1992.

Feminist Thought: Desire, Power and Academic Discourse. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1994. Chinese Translation, 1995.

The End(s)of Ethnography: From Realism to Social Criticism. Second Edition with New Preface. New York: Peter Lang Inc., 1998.

Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists. Chapter on the work, life and,
times of Judith Butler. Cambridge: Blackwell, 2000.

Profiles in Contemporary Social Theory. Chapter on the work, the life and
the times of Donna Haraway, with Joseph Schneider, forthcoming, Fall, 2000.

"The Technical Substrates of Unconscious Memory: Rereading  Derrida's Freud
in the Age of  Teletechnology," Sociological Theory,  forthcoming, Fall 2000.

"A Familial Unconscious," Qualitative Inquiry, forthcoming, Fall 2000.

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Nicole Cooley

Special Interests: Poetry and fiction writing; twentieth century experimental women's writing.

Selected Publications:

Resurrections. Louisiana State UP, 1996. [Winner of the 1995 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets.]

Judy Garland, Ginger Love. Regan Books/Harper Collins, 1998. [Novel.]

“Painful Bodies: Kathy Acker's Last Texts.” We Who Love to Be Astonished: Innovative Women Writers and Performance Artists. Eds. Cynthia Hogue and Laura Hinton. University of Alabama Press, forthcoming.

“Textual Bodies; Carol Maso's AVA and the Politics of Over-reaching.” AVA: A Casebook. Eds. Monica Berlin and John O'Brien. Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, forthcoming.

“Creative Writing at the Turn of the Millennium.” PMLA Millennium Issue, forthcoming.

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Sandi Cooper

Special Interests: Women, war and peace in the 20th century. Major texts in Women's History.

Selected Publications:

Patriotic Pacifism: Waging War on War in Europe, 1815-1914. Oxford 1991.

“Women in War and Peace, 1914-1945.” Becoming Visible: Women in European History Eds. Renate Bridenthal, et al. 3rd ed. 1998.

“Pacifism, Feminism and Fascism in Inter-War France.” The International History Review XIX (1997) 103-14.

“Alle origini del pacifismo contemporanea, Le associazioni per la pace in Europa 1815-`87.” Giano: ricerche per la pace (Rome, 1994) 135-58.

“Women and the World Order.” Women's Studies Quarterly (1991) 98-108.

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Kate Crehan


Special Interests:
As an anthropologist much of my work has focused on Africa and I have carried out extensive fieldwork in Zambia. Running through all my work is an interest in questions of power and in how power is gendered. What difference does it make whether an individual is a woman or a man? An area on which I have done considerable research is that of development, looking both at the practicalities of development projects and the language, or discourse, used to define and describe ‘development'. My understanding of ‘culture' - that central notion in the anthropological tradition – owes much to the work of the Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci. 

Selected Publications:

Gramsci, Culture and Anthropology: An Introductory Text. For: Pluto Educational Series: Reading Gramsci Series Editor: Joseph A. Buttigieg (under contract with Pluto Press)

The Fractured Community: Landscapes of Power and Gender in Rural Zambia, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

‘"A Vague Passion for a Vague Proletarian Culture": An Anthropologist Reads Gramsci', The Philosophical Forum, Vol.XXIX, Nos.3-4, Spring-Summer 1998 (special issue on Antonio Gramsci: Philosophy, Politics, and Culture), pp.218-231.

'Of Chickens and Guinea Fowl: Living Matriliny in Northwestern Zambia in the 1980s', Critique of Anthropology, Vol. 17, No.2, June 1997, pp.211-227.

‘Rural Households' in Rural Livelihoods: Crises and Responses (eds) Henry Bernstein et al, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.87-135, 1992.

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Paisley Currah

Special Interests: Sexuality, gender, and transgender studies; identity claims of sexual minorities in U.S. civil rights discourse; contemporary queery, feminist, liberal, and democratic political theory.

Selected Publications:

Transgender Rights. Edited by Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Minter. Minneapolis; University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming in 1006.

"Gender Pluralisms." In Transgender Rights. Edited by Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Minter. Minneapolis; University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming in 2006. 

"The Other 'Sex' in Lawrence v. Texas." Cardozo Women's Law Journal. Vol. 10, No. 2 (2004).

"Unprincipled Exclusions: The Struggle for Legislative and Judicial Protections for Transgendered People," co-authored with Shannon Minter. In Regulating Sex: The Politics of Intimacy and Identity, co-editor with Laurie Schaffner. Routledge (2004).

"The Transgender Rights Imaginary." Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law. Vol. IV: 705. (2003).

"Queer Theory, Lesbian and Gay Rights, and Transsexual Marriages," in Identity/Space/Power, ed. Mark Blasius (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001). 

"Transgender Equality: A Handbook for Activists and Policymakers." (Co-authored with Shannon Minter.) New York: Policy Institute of the National Lesbian and Gay Task Force and the National Center for Lesbian Rights, 2000.

"Practices, Politics, Publics: Identity and Queer Rights." Playing with Fire. Ed. Shane Phelan. New York: Routeledge, 1997.

"Sex and Gender Non-Conformity in the Civil Rights Strategies of Sexual Minorities," Hastings Law Journal, August 1997.

"Searching for Immutability: Homosexuality, Race, and Rights Discourse." In A Simple Matter of Justice. Edited by Angelia R. Wilson. London: Cassell Press, 1995.

Contact Information: pcurrah@brooklyn.cuny.edu

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Jackie DiSalvo

Special Interests:
Marxist-Feminist analysis and literary criticism, especially the construction of gendered subjectivity to capitalist social relations beginning with the English bourgeois revolution in the Early Modern period; both Marxist historicist and feminist psychoanalytic and psycho-historical analysis of gender representations; Marxist-Feminist critique of religious ideology and its implications for the possibility of a radical and feminist spirituality; Milton's Puritan poetry and the critique of such by William Blake, the Romantics and feminist authors; also contemporary political analysis.

Selected Publications:

Blake, Politics, History. Co-edited with Christopher Hobson and George Anthony Rosso. (New York: Garland, 1998).

War of Titans: Blake's Critique of Milton and the Politics of Religion. (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Univ. Press, 1984).

"`Spiritual Contagion': Male Psychology and the Culture of Idolatry in Samson Agonistes." Altering Eyes: New Perspectives on Samson Agonistes. Eds. Mark Kelley and Joseph Wittreich. (Newark, Delaware: U of Delaware P, forthcoming, 2001).

"Father James Groppi: Portrait of a 1960s Activist." The Lost World of Italian American Radicalism. Eds. Phillip Canistraro and Gerald Meyer, forthcoming.

"The World Turned Upside Down: The Visionary Tradition and the Alternative Press in the US in the Sixties." One Step Forward: Culture, Media and Politics in the US from the Cold War and the Sixties to the Age of Reagan and Bush. Ed. Michael Klein. (London: Pluto Press, 1994).

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Linda N. Edwards

Special Interests: Labor and Human Resource Economics; Equal Employment Opportunity for Women in Japan; Home-based work in the U.S.

Selected Publications:

”What do We Know About Home-Based Workers? Date from the 1990 Census of Population.” (with Elizabeth Field-Hendrey) Monthly Labor Review (November 1996) 26-34.

“Unions and Productivity in the Public Sector: The Case of Sanitation Workers”(with Elizabeth Field-Hendrey) Research in Labor Economics. Ed. Solomon W. Polachek. Vol. 15 Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1996. 305-28.

Immigration/ Migration and the CUNY Student of the Future. (co-author). City University of New York (Winter 1995) 158 pages.

“The Status of Women in Japan: Has The Equal Employment Opportunity Law Made a Difference?” Journal of Asian Economics 5:2 (Summer 1994): 217-40.

“The Future of Public Sector Unions: Stagnation or Growth?” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 79:2 (May 1989): 161-65.

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Hester Eisenstein

Special Interests: The sociology of gender; feminist and womanist theory; comparative feminisms; the political economy of gender; globalization.

Selected Publications:

Contemporary Feminist Thought. G.K. Hall, 1983.

Gender Shock: Practicing Feminism on Two Continents. Beacon, 1991

Inside Agitators: Australian Femocrats and the State. Temple University Press, 1996.

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Cynthia Fuchs Epstein

Special Interests: Sociology of Gender theory and Practices; Sociology of Work and Occupations, Sociology of the Legal Profession, Sociology of Culture.

Selected Publications:

Wives and Husbands Working Together: Law Partners and Marital Partners.” Eds. Marilyn Yalom and Laura Carstensen. Couples. Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming, 2001.

Preface. The Sound of Breaking Glass. Eds. M. Vianello and G. Moore. London: MacMillan. NY: St. Martin's Press, forthcoming 2000.

“Time Escalation and Time Deviance: Global and Local Constraints on the Integration of Work and Family.” Occasional Papers, Illinois State University. April, 2000.

The Part-time Paradox: Time Norms, Professional Life, Family and Gender. (With Carroll Seron, Bonnie Oglensky and Robert Saute) Routledge, 1999.

“Similarity and Difference: The Sociology of Gender Distinction.” Handbook of the Sociology of Gender. Ed. Janet Saltzman Chafetz . NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999.

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Michelle Fine

Special Interests: Social injustice: when do we perceive social arrangements as unjust, and when do we blame victims?; the contexts in which injustice is most pronounced and what are the ideological conditions in which unjust arrangements appear simply fair or deserved. These are the questions I ask in my work with public high schools, prisons and youth in urban communities. More specifically, I am a social psychologist engaged with both qualitative and quantitative methods, studying when injustice is perceived, when it is resisted and how it is negotiated by those who pay the most serious price for social inequities. My research is typically participatory, with youth and/or activists, drawing from feminist, critical race and critical theories. All of my projects are collaboratively conducted with graduate students, and one of my great professional pleasures is helping to nurture the next generation of critical intellectuals.

Selected Publications:

The Unknown City: Lives of Poor and Working Class Young Adults. (with L. Weis) Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.

Speedbumps: A Student Friendly Guide to Qualitative Research. (with L. Weis) Teachers College Press, 2000.

Construction Sites: Excavating Race, Class, Gender & Sexuality in Spaces for and by Youth. (With L. Weis) New York: Teachers College Press, 2000.

“Participatory Action Research: From Within and Beyond Prison Bars.” [With Kathy Boudin (Bedford Hills), Iris Bowen (Bedford Hills/Albion CF), Judith Clark (Bedford Hills), Donna Hylton (Bedford Hills), Migdalia Martinez (Bedford Hills), Missy (Bedford Hills), Melissa Rivera (Harvard University), Rosemarie A. Roberts (CUNY), Pamela Smart (Bedford Hills), María Elena Torre (CUNY), and Debora Upegui (CUNY).] Qualitative Methods. American Psychological Association: Washington, D.C. Forthcoming.

“Where the Girls (And Women) Are.” American Journal of Community Psychology. (With Bertram, C., Hall, J. & Weis, L.) 28:5 (2000): 731-755.

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Cheryl Fish

Special Interests
: Antebellum literatures of the Americas; mobility and travel for women and African Americans; the intersections of travel, the body, and refigured domesticity; discourses of science and medicine in the nineteenth century; the Black Atlantic; reproductive technologies as they intersect with information technologies in our current era; Women's Studies; Multicultural Writers; Literature and the Environment; mentoring.


Selected Publications
:

Co-Editor, with Farah J. Griffin. A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African American Travel Writing. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998).

"Voices of Restless (Dis)Continuity: The Significance of Travel for Black Women in the Antebellum Americas." Women’s Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal 26:5 (July, 1997): 475-95.

 "Journeys and Warnings: Nancy Prince's Travels as Cautionary Tales for African-American Readers." Women At Sea: Travel and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse. Eds. Liza Paravisini-Gebert and Ivette Romero. Forthcoming St. Martin's Press.

"Unconnected Intelligence and the Public Intellectual: Margaret Fuller's Letters and Critical Writing." Margaret Fuller’s Cultural Critical: Her Age and Legacy. Ed. Fritz Fleischmann. (New York: Peter Lang, 2000): 153-165.

"Someone to Watch Over Me: Politics and Paradoxes in Academic Mentoring." Working Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory. Eds. Michele M. Tokarcyzk and Elizabeth Fay. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993): 179-96.

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Joyce Gelb

Special Interests: Women's movements and public policy impact in comparative perspective; special focus on U.S., Japan and England.

Special Publications:

Women and Public Policies. Princeton: UV Press, 1982, 1987, 1996.

Feminism and Politics. California, 1989.

Women of Japan and Korea. Temple, 1994.

Gender Policies in Japan and the United States: Comparing Women's Movements Rights and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

“Feminist Politics in a Hostile Environment: Obstacles and Opportunities.” How Do Movements Matter. Ed. by Giugni, Mc Adam and Tilly. Univ of Minn Press.

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Linda M. Grasso

Special Interests: U.S. women's literature and history; history of feminism as ideology and social movement; feminist theory; multi-racial U.S. literary texts and traditions from seventeenth through twentieth centuries; African American women's literature and history; theorizing literary inscriptions of anger, revenge, and justice, especially in regard to gender, race, and class oppression.

Selected Publications:

The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

"Masking Volcanic Anger: The Repressive World of Nineteenth-Century White Female Emotional Culture." Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies 27 (2003): 27-48.

"Louisa May Alcott's 'Magic Inkstand': Little Women, Feminism, and The Myth of Regeneration." Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies 19.1 (1998): 177-192.

"Anger in the House: Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall and the Redrawing of Emotional Boundaries in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America." Studies in the American Renaissance (1995): 251-261.

"'Thwarted Life, Mighty Hunger, Unfinished Work:' The Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Women Writing in America." ATQ: 19th C. American Literature and Culture 8.2 (June 1994): 97-118.

Grasso home page: http://www.york.cuny.edu/~grasso/

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Virginia P. Held

Special Interests:
Limits on markets, group responsibility, feminist ethics.

Selected Publications:

Feminist Morality: Transforming Culture, Society, and Politics.

Rights and Goods: Justifying Social Action.

The Public Interest and Individual Interests.

Ed. Justice and Care: Essential Readings in Feminist Ethics.

Ed. Property, Profits, and Economic Justice.

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Laura Hinton

Special Interests: Postmodern literature and theory, contemporary women's fiction, avant-garde fiction, feminist theory, classic film and popular culture studies, novel-to-film adaptations, narrative and film theory, history of the novel, women's literature surveys, international women's film, women's studies, essay writing, world literature surveys.

Selected Publications:

The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911 (Albany: SUNY Press: 1999).

We Who Love to Be Astonished: Experimental Feminist Poetics and Performance Art. Co-edited with Cynthia Hogue (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2001 B forthcoming).

"Postmodern Romance and the Fetishistic Vision in Fanny Howe's The Lives of the Spirit and Lyn Hejinian's My Life." In We Who Love to Be Astonished: Experimental Feminist Poetics and Performance Art. Ed. Laura Hinton and Cynthia Hogue (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama P, 2001 –forthcoming). [20 pp. article ms]

"The Heroine's Subjection: Clarissa, Sadomasochism and Natural Law." Eighteenth-Century Studies 32. 3 (Spring 1999): 293-308. [Refereed.]

"Giving Isabel an 'Ado' (Adieu): Sympathy and Sadomasochism in the Preface to The Portrait of a Lady." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 28. 3 (June 1999): 299-329. [Refereed.]

"The Shape of Desire in Marguerite Duras' Dix heures et demie du soir en été. In Marguerite Duras Lives On. Ed. Janine Ricouart. University Press of America, 1998: 115-127. Rpt. from The Journal of Durassian Studies 2 (Fall 1990): 2-14. [Invited.]

"Formalism, Feminism, and Genre Slipping in the Poetic Writings of Leslie Scalapino." Women Poets of the Americas: Symposium of Critical Essays. Ed. Jacqueline V. Brogan and Cordelia Candelaria. Notre Dame, IN: U Notre Dame P, 1999: 130-145. [Invited.] Short version presented at the ALA Symposium on Contemporary Women Poets of the Americas, Cancun, Mexico (December 1995).

"Excessive Mothers and Daughters: The Maternal Melodrama and the Daytime Talk-Show 'Sally Jessy Raphael.'" In Girls: Or Women in the Public Sphere. Ed. E. Ann Kaplan. Westview Press (forthcoming). [Invited.] Earlier version presented at the Society for Cinema Studies, New Orleans (February 1993).

"Women, Narrative, Postmodernism: An Introduction to the Writings of Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino," Private Arts 10 (1996): 47-57. [Invited.]

"'Woman's View: The Vertigo Frame Up," Film Criticism 19.2 (Winter 1994-'95): 2-22. [Refereed.] Earlier versions presented at the Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C. (December 1989), and the Feminism and Representation Conference, Providence, RI (April 1988).

 

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Ellie Hisama

Special interests: Feminist music theory and analysis, gender and modernism, feminist criticism of western popular music, postcolonial studies of music, representation of women in popular music and musical theater.

Selected publications:

Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

"Feminist Music Theory Into the Millennium: A Personal History." Feminisms at the Millennium. Eds. Carolyn Allen and Judith A. Howard. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, in press. Reprinted from Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 25/4 (Summer 2000), 1287-91.

"Postcolonialism on the Make: The Music of John Mellencamp, David Bowie, and John Zorn." Reading Pop: Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music. Ed. Richard Middleton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, 329-46. Reprinted from Popular Music 12/2, May 1993, 91-104.

"Life Outside the Canon? A Walk on the Wild Side." Music Theory Online 6.4 (2000). http://smt.ucsb.edu/mto/issues/mto.00.6.3/mto.00.6.3.hisama.html

"Voice, Race, and Sexuality in the Music of Joan Armatrading." Audible Traces: Gender, Identity, and Music. Eds. Elaine Barkin and Lydia Hamessley. Zürich: Carciofoli Verlagshaus, 1999, 115-32.


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Florence Howe

Special Interests: Twentieth century poetry, U.S. and British fiction, memoir, history of feminist thought, history of women's education.

Selected Publications:

Myths of Coeducation: Selected Essays, 1965-1983. University of Indiana Press, 1984.

No More Masks! An Anthology of American Women Poets. Doubleday, 1973; HarperCollins, 1993.

Tradition and the Talents of Women. Edited and with an Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 1991.

Almost Touching the Skies: Women's Coming of Age Stories. (Edited with Jean Casella) The Feminist Press, 2000.

The Politics of Women's Studies: Testimony from 30 Founding Mothers. (Edited and with an essay) The Feminist Press, 2000.

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