Feminists in the United States and beyond have always imagined themselves to be defiantly resistant, agents of transformation. Yet, precisely because feminist practices inevitably arise out of the very cultural and political modalities they seek to challenge, the question remains: in what ways are such practices also sites of erasure and cooptation? The scholarly and creative work in this issue tackle a number of important topics long familiar to feminists: racialized appropriation; war, power, and female embodiment; the realities of exclusion and inclusion; sexual discrimination, abuse, and resistance. Representing a number of points of view, these texts engage in a lively conversation about the responsibilities, possibilities, and some of the failings of feminism in a variety of historical and cultural arenas. As a group, the articles teach us not so much that battles are lost or won between well-defined adversaries for or against feminism, but that some of the most crucial and subtle conflicts are those within and among feminists themselves.

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Preface
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Carrie N. Baker
Race, Class, and Sexual Harassment in the 1970s
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Deborah Selbach
Man with a Candle and Rope (Fiction)
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Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Draft 49: Turns and Turns, an Interpretation (Poetry)
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Mitsuye Yamada
Numbers Game; Yellow Ribbons (Poetry)
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Elizabeth Rees
Love and Death (Poetry)
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Teresa C. Zackodnik
"I Don't Know How You Will Feel When I Get Through":
Racial Difference, Woman's Rights, and Sojourner Truth
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Jessica Dallow
Reclaiming Histories: Betye and Alison Saar, Feminism, and
the Representation of Black Womanhood
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Marcella Fleischman Pixley
Mushrooms (Poetry)
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Michelle Murphy
Immodest Witnessing: The Epistemology of Vaginal
Self-Examination in the U.S. Feminist Self-Help Movement
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Marjorie Saunders
My Mother's Car (Fiction)
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Stephanie Hartman
Reading the Scar in Breast Cancer Poetry
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Renny Christopher
Shame and the Search for Home (Review Essay)
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Rita D. Costello
Tracey Lies Fetal; Survival Training (Poetry)
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Judith Sornberger
The Wal-Mart in Tioga County; Our Lady of
Guadalupe Appears to Me in Wal-Mart;
Watching Sea Lions with My Mother (Poetry)
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Heidi Tinsman
Gender and Citizenship: A Review of Recent Works
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Annalise Moser
Happy Heterogeneity? Feminism, Development, and the Grassroots Women's Movement in Peru
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News and Views
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Notes on Contributors
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Cover Art

Betye Saar. Black Girl’s Window, 1969.
Mixed media assemblage, 35.75 x 18 x 1.5 inches. Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York.
© Betye Saar.