Books by Elizabeth Weed

For over a decade, feminist studies have occupied an extraordinary position in the United States. On the one hand, they have contributed to the development of a strong `identity¿ politics; on the other, they have been part of the post-structuralist critique of the unified subject ¿ its experience, truth and presence ¿ and of the massive challenge to Western metaphysics and humanism. Along with race and ethnic studies, feminist enquiry has moved beyond the fiction of a unitary feminism to address the differences within the study of difference.The essays in this volume all address feminism¿s relationships to theory and politics at the level of the criticism and production of knowledge. Readers and students of politics, history, literature, philosophy, sociology and the sciences ¿ anyone with a stake in theory and politics ¿ will benefit from this powerful book.

This special issue of differences addresses the realization that "nature" and "nurture" are now seen to be inseparably and dynamically related in the determination of human cultural expression.

The question of what it means to be human is at the core of Western philosophical and scientific inquiry. This book poses central philosophical and scientific questions from a different perspective, not simply asking where the line is or ought to be drawn between man and beast but examining stakes in transgressing or maintaining species barriers.