Breaking Feminist Waves

“This series promises to invite feminist thinkers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to think theoretically about feminism’s history and future—work that needs to be done. I look forward to incorporating titles from this series into my women’s and gender studies teaching.”—Alison Piepmeier, Director, Women's and Gender Studies Program, The College of Charleston 

Series Editors: Gillian Howie and Linda Martín Alcoff 

The aim of the Breaking Feminist Waves Series is to attract original scholars who will offer unique interpretations of past scholarship and unearth neglected contributions to feminist theory. For the last twenty years, feminist theory has been presented as a series of ascending waves. This picture has had the effect of deemphasizing the diversity of past scholarship as well as constraining the way we understand and frame new work. By breaking free from the constraints of the image of waves, this series will be able to provide a wider forum for dialogue and engage historical and interdisciplinary work to open up feminist theory to new audiences and markets. 

Gillian Howie is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. Her previous work includes Deleuze and Spinoza: Aura of Expressionism; Touching Transcendence: Women and the Divine (edited with Jan Jobling); Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration (edited with Stacy Gillis and Rebecca Munford); Menstruation (edited with Andrew Shail); and Gender, Teaching and Research in Higher Education (edited with Ashley Tauchert).  

Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Syracuse University. She is the author of Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory (1996) and the co-editor of Feminist Epistemologies (1993), Thinking From the Underside of History (2000), and Identities: Race, Class, Gender, and Nationality (2002).