This important reader for women's studies contains selections by twenty scholars who have won Woodrow Wilson Fellowships in Womens Studies over the last 30 years and have helped establish and further this subject as an important discipline; they write about the changes in their fields, their recent research, and the theoretical underpinnings of their work. This is an indispensable book for instructors and students who want to know what contemporary scholars can tell us about womens lives and notions of gender in history, literature, the arts, and the social sciences; how they write about their findings; and how they define issues and develop approaches to their subjects.