Marianne Hirsch is Professor of French and Italian and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Mother Daughter Plot and Beyond the SingleViison.Evelyn Fox Keller teaches in the departments of Rhetoric and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Reflections on Gender and Science and A Feeling for theOrganism.

• Contributors include: Elizabeth Abel, King-Kok Cheung, Mary Childers, Nancy Cott, Teresa de Lauretis, Diane Ehrensaft, Carla Freccero, Jane Gallop, Evelyn Hammonds, Bell Hooks, Peggy Kamuf, Katie King, Tom Laqueur, Marni Lazreg, Helen Longio, Nancy Miller, Martha Minow, Sara Ruddick, Joan Scott, Valerie Smith, Ann Snitow and Michelle Stanworth.