Leila Ahmed, Deborah Kaplan, Patricia Meyer Spacks, and Joan Hinde Stewart discuss feminism in the realm of cultural and literary criticism. In the mid-1980s, what were some of the implications of feminism for the production and study of literature, in both historical and contemporary terms, and in the Middle East, the United States, and the United Kingdom?
At the time of this interview, Ahmed, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1982-83), was professor of English at the University of Massachusetts. Kaplan was professor of English at George Mason University. Spacks, a Fellow at the Center (1982-83, 1988-89) and a trustee of the Center, was professor of English at Yale University. Stewart, a Fellow at the Center (1982-83), was professor of French at North Carolina State University.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
