The advent of women's studies has brought a feminist perspective into the academy-but has it made a difference there? Has it transformed our curriculum; has it reshaped our materials; has it altered our knowledge?
In the essays collected here, nine distinguished scholars provide an overview of the differences the feminist perspective makes-and could make-in scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Carefully documented and judiciously critical, these essays inform the reader about developments in feminist scholarship in literary criticism, the performing arts, religion, history,...