Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage
by Elaine Showalter
Scribner, $27.50 / HBS $22.00

Sure to take its place alongside such literary pillars as The Second Sex and Backlash, Elaine Showalter's brilliant, provocative work chronicles the roles of feminist intellectuals from the eighteenth century to the present.

Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World
by Claudia Roth Pierpont
Vintage, $13.00 pb / HBS $10.40

Pierpont gives us portraits of twelve amazingly diverse and influential literary women of the twentieth century who remade themselves and the world through their art. Includes essays on Gertrude Stein, Mae West, Margaret Mitchell, Eudora Welty, Ayn Rand, Doris Lessing, Anais Nin, Zora Neal Hurston, Marina Tsvetaeva, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, and Olive Schreiner.

Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture
by Katha Pollitt
Vintage, $12.95 pb / HBS $10.36

"Katha Pollitt's essays are so brilliant that I rub my eyes from time to time as I read them. When she finishes with a subject, there isn't really anything more left to say--except, "Thanks, Katha, for clearing that up!"--Barbara Ehrenreich

Women, Science and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies
Mary Wyer, Donna Cookmyer, Mary Barbercheck, and Marta Wayne, Editors
Routledge, $27.99 pb / HBS $22.39

Are women changing science? From increased funding for breast cancer to the discovery of the cyborg to the technology of the orgasm, this reader provides an introduction to the gendering of science and the impact women are making in laboratories around the world. Contributors include Evelyn Fox Keller, Ruth Hubbard, Emily Martin, Bonnie Spanier, and Ruth Perry, among others.