Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s thro

Felski presents a critical account of current American and European feminist literary theory, and analyzes contemporary fiction by women to show that no theoris

Examines the lives of female social scientists in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, their difficulties in gaining acceptance, and their pioneering s

The book questions patriarchy and the associated feminine power struggle. It traverses through the characters of the mythological Draupadi of the epic Mahabhara