Poetry. Fiction. Essays. Women's Studies. FEMINAISSANCE = collectivity; feminine ecriture; the politics of writing; text and voice; the body as a site of contestation, insurgence and pleasure; race and writing; gender as performance; writing about other women writers; economic inequities; Helene Cixous; monstrosity; madness; and aesthetics. FEMINAISSANCE = Dodie Bellamy, Caroline Bergvall, Meiling Cheng, Wanda Coleman, Bhanu Kapil, Chris Kraus, Susan McCabe, Tracie Morris, Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson, Vanessa Place, Juliana Spahr, Christine Wertheim, Stephanie Young, Lidia Yuknavitch. FEMINAISSANCE = "If the fact that women do not say 'We' was one of the constitutive problems for 20th century feminism, the fact that women do and still clearly feel the need to say 'We' is just as rich and interesting a topic for feminism today. The writings gathered here prove feminism to be alive and more relevant to all genders than ever: not just because feminist discourse remains a political necessity, but because of its artistic and intellectual pleasures"--Sianne Ngai.

Author Hometown: LOS ANGELES, CA USA



About the author: Christine Wertheim is MFA Writing Program Chair at Cal Arts. She is the author of TIME'S-PACE (Les Figues Press), a book of poetics, and a chapbook from Triage. She coedited the anthologies SEANCE, THE NOULIPIAN ANALECTS, and FEMINAISSANCE. Recent critical work has appeared in X-tra, Cabinet and The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Centre. Recent poetry appears in Drunken Boat, Tarpaulin Sky and Veer.

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