I. Feminist Critiques Within the Disciplines. 1. The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles / Emily Martin. 2. Feminist Skepticism and the "Maleness" of Philosophy / Susan Bordo. 3. Feminist History After the Linguistic Turn: Historicizing Discourse and Experience / Kathleen Canning -- II. The Politics of Identity and Experience. 4. The Evidence of Experience / Joan Scott. 5. Situating Locations: The Politics of Self, Identity, and "Other" in Living and Writing the Text / Jayati Lal. 6. The Construction of Marginal Identities: Working-class Girls of Algerian Descent in a French School / Catherine Raissiguier -- III. The Social Construction of Difference. 7. Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought / Patricia Hill Collins. 8. Eating the Other / bell hooks. 9. Feminist Criticism, "The Yellow Wallpaper," and the Politics of Color in America / Susan Lanser.

IV. Power and Resistance. 10. Islam and Patriarchy: A Comparative Perspective / Deniz Kandiyoti. 11. Feminism and Empowerment: A Critical Reading of Foucault / Monique Deveaux -- V. Representations of the Body. 12. Embodied Geographies: Subjectivity and Materiality in the Work of Ana Mendieta / Anne Raine. 13. The Power of "Positive" Diagnosis: Medical and Maternal Discourses on Amniocentesis / Rayna Rapp. 14. The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris / Valerie Traub -- VI. Social Policy and Female Agency. 15. Small Happinesses: The Feminist Struggle to Integrate Social Research with Social Activism / Roberta Spalter-Roth and Heidi Hartmann. 16. From Nation to Family: Containing African AIDS / Cindy Patton. 17. Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies of Domination, Common Interests, and the Politics of Solidarity / Chandra Talpade Mohanty.