The essays in this special issue of Modern Language Quarterly reflect intensively on feminism during various periods and build conceptual bridges linking early modern female writers, such as Marguerite de Navarre and Mary Wollstonecraft, with theorists, poets, and fiction writers of the postmodern era.

Contributors. Jonathan Culler, Joan DeJean, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Carla Freccero, Angela Leighton, Laura Mandell, Jeffrey Masten, Robyn Wiegman