Witness (Women's Studies Quarterly): WSQ: Spring/Summer 2008 (Women's Studies Quarterly, 36) [Paperback] Kathryn Abrams, Kacandes; Kathryn Abrams and Irene Kacandes

Feminism was born of acts of witness, and throughout its many transformations, bearing witness has played crucial roles. This issue looks at the legal and political contexts that have structured women’s efforts to testify to injustice; it examines new methodologies that feminists have used to bear witness and the role of objects in the process of testifying; and highlights the experience of contemporary and historical feminist witnesses to oppression and transformation.

Featuring essays by scholars such as Susan Brison, Ann Cvetkovich, Marianne Hirsch, Rosanne Kennedy, Nancy K. Miller, Judith Resnik, Valerie Smith, and Leo Spitzer, and a retrospective on the work of Judith Herman, this issue asks how witnessing might be understood and fortified as a vehicle for feminist understanding, resistance, and change.

Kathryn Abrams is Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches feminist jurisprudence, voting rights, and constitutional law. Before coming to Berkley, she taught at the law schools at Boston, Indiana-Bloomington, Harvard, Northwestern, and Cornell universities. She has published articles in the William and Mary Law Review, California Law Review, and Duke Law Journal. Irene Kacandes is an Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. Kacandes is the author of Talk Fiction:Literature and the Talk Explosion. She is the co-editor of A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies and Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust.