ABSTRACT
readers acquainted with griselda Pollock’s work will find in this volume an important selection of her recent essays full of insight into major areas of contemporary theory, especially at the interface between sexed subjectivities, post-colonialism and Marxist-informed history. Anyone who may still believe Griselda Pollock’s thought is adequately exemplified by Old Mistresses—and there are indeed many who do not think about modern feminism beyond its infancy—should most certainly read it, because Pollock has remained fully engaged with radical theoretical, art-historical and feminist debates. Both kinds of reader, together with whoever might be new to her work, will discover continuities on many, intersecting levels that are in themselves illuminating at a time when so many write as if the production of the new were possible “ex nihilo.” The idea of “History” is fundamental to this texture of writing.
