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The contributors to this volume took their inspiration from Ross Shideler's extensive and diverse body of work, and particularly from Professor Shideler's volume, Questioning the Father: From Darwin to Zola, Ibsen, Strindberg and Hardy (Stanford University Press, 1999). The essays in this collection deal with father figures-biological, literary, intellectual, and cultural-as well as the gender challenges that they invoke and the gender identities that they help to shape. These essays are meant both to question father figures of all kinds and to honor the father figure that Ross Shideler has...

Reclaiming Klytemnestra explores the surprisingly numerous revisions by late twentieth-century women writers of the famous axe-wielding Greek queen who killed her husband in his bath when he returned from the Trojan War. By slaying her husband, Klytemnestra exposed the competing ethics of motherhood and matrimony at the beginnings of the Western tradition. In this interdisciplinary study, Kathleen L. Komar first examines the classical archetype of Klytemnestra established by writers such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Turning to the twentieth century, she investigates the work of...