Feminist Studies/Critical Studies: Issues, Terms, and Contexts

Abstract

"It is by now clear that a feminist renaissance is under way … a shift in perspective far more extraordinary and influential than the shift from theology to humanism of the European Renaissance."1 Like feminism itself, these words of Adrienne Rich, written in 1973, bear reevaluation; not so much, perhaps, to discuss the validity of their assessment or the extensiveness of its claim as to examine the manner of the shift, to analyze, articulate, address the terms of this other perspective.