The six parts of Feminist Research: Prospect and Retrospect parallel the female life cycle, highlighting themes such as the increasing power of medical definitions of female experience - including conception, pregnancy, childbirth - and the nature of depression in women. New perspectives are offered on the specificity of the female approach to both learning and teaching and are emphasized in considering problems such as dealing with alcohol abuse and wife-battering. For example, Margaret Eichler opens the initial section, "Reproduction and Maternity," with an analysis of the new reproductive...

Significant progress has been made in feminist research over the last decade; this collection of articles, selected from those presented at the 1986 Conference of the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, is representative of both the strength of previous work and prospects for future research.