Feminist Review : Issue 53: Speaking Out: Researching and Representing Women

A unique combination of the activist and the academic, Feminist Review has an acclaimed position within women's studies courses and the women's movement. It publishes and reviews work by women; featuring articles on feminist theory, race, class and sexuality, women's history, cultural studies, black and third world feminism, poetry, photography, letters and much more. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 2 Contents......Page 3 Copyright......Page 5 Introduction......Page 6 Who’s who in feminist literary studies......Page 12 Where’s where in feminist literary criticism......Page 15 Inclusion and exclusion......Page 19 Notes......Page 23 References......Page 25 Keywords......Page 28 ‘Sisters chant: I struggle therefore I am’......Page 33 Boundaries of ‘race’: boundaries of gender......Page 47 ‘Us’ and white women......Page 48 ‘Us’ and black men......Page 51 Colouring the category: ‘racing’ the experience......Page 53 References......Page 58 Keywords......Page 60 Women and social class......Page 61 Reflexivity......Page 63 Power and telling the ‘truth’......Page 65 The thin dividing line between identification and exploitation......Page 67 Dealing with difficult differences......Page 68 References......Page 73 Revolutionary Spaces......Page 76 Class and contemplation......Page 77 Working-class subjects/working-class viewers......Page 78 The Greyhound bus trip......Page 83 The Sea Grill bar......Page 87 The boarding house......Page 90 References......Page 95 Between Identification and Desire......Page 96 Readers of romance......Page 98 ‘Being above all that’: Danny’s story......Page 100 Mapping the perverse......Page 104 The ‘boy in the box’: outing Du Maurier......Page 106 References......Page 107 Poem......Page 110 Becoming a Woman and other Essays in 19th and 20th Century Feminist History......Page 112 Antisemitism, Misogyny and the Logic of Cultural Difference: Cesare Lombroso and Matilde Serao......Page 114 New Right Discourse on Race and Sexuality: Britain 1968–1990......Page 116 Alcohol, Gender and Culture......Page 118 Cinderella Goes to Market: Citizenship, Gender and Women’s Movements in East Central Europe......Page 121 Straight Sex: The Politics of Pleasure......Page 124 Rethinking Sexual Harassment......Page 127 Medicine and Nursing, Professions in a Changing Health Service......Page 129 Letter......Page 132 Call for Papers......Page 134 Back Issues......Page 136 Covering topics such as citizenship in the private sphere, women and protest, and Irishness and abortion, contents in this issue include: Love and Colonialism in Takamure Itsue's Feminism: A Postcolonial Critique; Women, Wives and the Campaign Against Pit Closures in

County Durham: Understanding the Vane Tempest Vigil; Narratives of Irishness and the Problem of Abortion: The X Case, 1992; Public and Private Citizenship: From Gender Invisibility to Feminist Inclusiveness.

A combination of the activist and the academic, this journal holds a position within women's studies courses and the women's movement. It publishes and reviews work by women, featuring articles on feminist theory, race, class and sexuality, and women's history. This article is concerned with the construction of feminist literary studies in the last twenty years and points out how we have created a literary history which is both selective and schematic.