A collection of work on American feminist scholarship that has appeared since the publication of the first "Signs Reader" in 1983. The volume has an interdisciplinary focus for the presentation and discussion of wide and complex issues of gender. The text also focuses on many recent areas of debate in feminist research, such as the intersection of feminism with cultural studies. Contributors include Nancy J. Chodorow, Lisa Disch, Ann duCille, Trisha Franzen, and Susan Stanford Friedman.