Sharon Harris, Editor, with Linda K. Hughes.
This four-volume anthology brings together the richest collection of feminist texts available with more 120 entries, most of them complete essays or chapters, arranged broadly chronologically. Readers can juxtapose 17th-century ‘New World’ feminist writing with European counterparts, historical with poststructuralist feminist writing, Asian with Anglophone voices and ‘difference feminism’ with universalist statements. Each text features an editorial headnote and annotation, while the general introduction sets feminism in its historical and global contexts. The anthology’s inclusion of multiple genres—letters and poems as well as philosophical or polemical prose—offers new possibilities for the study of genre and feminist discourse.
