ABSTRACT
In discussions of post-modernism, a sense of intrigue develops around a presumed absence or withholding of women's speech in relation to what has certainly become one of the boom discourses of the 1980s. Feminism has both profited from, and helped to produce, this kind of re-conceptualization of academic politics. The feminism of the essays is an explicit and polemical position. The emergence of modes of feminist theorizing inflected by post-structuralism corresponds both to an intensified discussion of feminism in the academies. To the development of a more complex and indirect relationship between that discussion, a range of broad political struggles involving women, and a rapidly changing, sometimes weakened, sense of feminism as a social force. In reading the limits of Arac's bibliography, it becomes particularly difficult to determine the difference between an act of re-presenting a presupposed historical not-figuring of women in post-modernism debates, and an act of re-producing the not-figuring, not counting, of women's work, by simple omission.
