The Second Signs Reader: Feminist Scholarship, 1983-1996 0226400611, 9780226400617

A collection of work on American feminist scholarship that has appeared since the publication of the first Signs Reader

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 0226400611, 9780226400617

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Feminist Scholarship, 1983-1996 Editors

RUTH-ELLEN

B. JOERES

BARBARA LASLETT

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The essays in this volume originally appeared in various issues of SIGNS: JOURNAL OF WOMEN IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY. Acknowledgment of the original publication data can be found in the first page of each essay. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 6063 7 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 1996 by the University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 1996 Printed in the United States of America 00 99 98 97 96 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The Second Signs reader : feminist scholarship, 1983-1996 I edited by Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres and Barbara Laslett. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-226-40060-3 (cloth : alk paper). - ISBN 0-226-40061-1 (pbk.) 1. Women's studies. 2. Feminist theory. 3. Sex role. I. Joeres, Ruth-Ellen B., 1939- 11. Laslett, Barbara. III. Signs. HQ1180.S43 1996 96-31516 305.4'07-dc20 CIP

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