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Patricia J. Williams

A thoughtful commentator on race and racism in America. An interdisciplinary legal scholar and public intellectual, she approaches issues of law and social justice in novel ways. Her writings weave together elements of popular culture, memoir, political theory, social activism, and traditional analysis of cases, statutes, and the Constitution.

Monique Wittig: The Straight Mind and Other Essays

French novelist, poet, and social theorist. As a founding leader in the French feminist movement, Wittig's literary and theoretical works were recognized as essential contributions to feminist thought in Europe and the U.S. and to the emerging movement for lesbian and gay rights. Wittig's work has had a fundamental impact upon feminist theory and lesbian and gay theory worldwide. Her novels, including Les Guerilleres (1969), The Lesbian Body (1973), Lesbian Peoples: Materials for a Dictionary (co-authored with Sande Zeig, 1975), and Virgile, non (1984, translated as Across the Acheron in 1987) combine a sensitivity to the nuances of language and style with a powerful illustration of her philosophy of lesbian materialism, a theoretical position she set forth in a series of essays collected in The Straight Mind (1992), a term she coined.

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

The Anglo-Irish feminist, intellectual and writer, Mary Wollstonecraft, was born in London. She was an early proponent of educational equality between men and women, expressing this radical opinion in Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1786). Her most important book, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792), was the first great feminist document. She also wrote several novels.

Mitsuye Yamada: Asian Pacific American Women and Feminism

A poet, educator, and founder of Multicultural Women Writers of Orange County. She was in Fukuoka, Japan. Yamada's own ordeal during World War II and observations of her mother's way of life bring anti-racist and feminist attitudes to her works. Her works include Camp Notes and Other Poems(1976) 2nd ed.(1992) and Desert Run: Poems and Stories (1988).

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