1998

(1)   Adrienne Rich's association of politics and "location" has increasingly appeared as the logical next step beyond deconstruction's often wearying analysis of metaphysical convolutions. Today, literary and cultural critics routinely

Why be afraid to write useful truths for the good of society? Well, my dear benefactor, I will resist no longer: I'll write; my ingenuity will make up for my lack of a polished style — at least for thinking men, and I care little for fools. No, you'

(1)   Middle-class Victorians were captivated by difference. They compulsively ordered their world in terms of the oppositions they imagined between men and women, public and private life, civilized and savage cultures, among other things

(1)   A man climbs into bed wearing very short, skimpy, and sexy pajamas with a very wide V-neck. Another man appears in the room, lifts up the bedclothes, peeks underneath coyly, then asks invitingly, "Sleeping alone?" Surprisingly enough