Nancy K. Miller is Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and Lehman College. She is the author of Changing theSubject (1988), The Heroine's Text (1982), and editor of The Poetics of Gender (1986), as well as the author of numerous critical essays on gender and sexuality, feminist theory, and on French literature of the 18th and 19th centuries.

"...an engaging reply to the anti-feminist backlash in the academy and the ongoing war over the place of critical theory." -- Publisher's Weekly

• Chapter 1 Getting Personal: Autobiography as Cultural Criticism; Chapter 2 Untitled Work, Or, Speaking as a Feminist …; Chapter 3 A Feminist Teacher in the Graduate Classroom; Chapter 4 The French Mistake; Chapter 5 Parables and Politics: Feminist Criticism in 1986; Chapter 6 Dreaming, Dancing, awd Changing Locations of Feminist Criticism, 1988; Chapter 7 Philoctetes' Sister: Feminist Literary Criticism and the New Misogyny; Chapter 8 Teaching Autobiography; Chapter 9 My Father's Penis;

Nancy K. Miller is Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and Lehman College. She is the author of Changing theSubject (1988), The Heroine's Text (1982), and editor of The Poetics of Gender (1986), as well as the author of numerous critical essays on gender and sexuality, feminist theory, and on French literature of the 18th and 19th centuries.

"...an engaging reply to the anti-feminist backlash in the academy and the ongoing war over the place of critical theory." -- Publisher's Weekly

• Chapter 1 Getting Personal: Autobiography as Cultural Criticism; Chapter 2 Untitled Work, Or, Speaking as a Feminist …; Chapter 3 A Feminist Teacher in the Graduate Classroom; Chapter 4 The French Mistake; Chapter 5 Parables and Politics: Feminist Criticism in 1986; Chapter 6 Dreaming, Dancing, awd Changing Locations of Feminist Criticism, 1988; Chapter 7 Philoctetes' Sister: Feminist Literary Criticism and the New Misogyny; Chapter 8 Teaching Autobiography; Chapter 9 My Father's Penis;