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The feminist thinkers in this collection are the designated \"fifty-one key feminist thinkers,\" historical and contemporary, and also the authors of the entries. Collected here are fifty-one key thinkers and fifty-one authors, recognizing that women are fifty-one percent of the population. There are actually one hundred and two thinkers collected in these pages, as each author is a feminist thinker, too: scholars, writers, poets, and activists, well-established and emerging, old and young and in-between. These feminists speak the languages of art, politics, literature, education, classics, gender studies, film, queer theory, global affairs, political theory, science fiction, African American studies, sociology, American studies, geography, history, philosophy, poetry, and psychoanalysis. Speaking in all these diverse tongues, conversations made possible by feminist thinking are introduced and engaged. Key figures include: Simone de Beauvoir Doris Lessing Toni Morrison Cindy Sherman Octavia Butler Marina Warner Elizabeth Cady Stanton Chantal Akerman Betty Friedan Audre Lorde Margaret Fuller Sappho Adrienne Rich Each entry is supported by a list of the thinker’s major works, along with further reading suggestions. An ideal resource for students and academics alike, this text will appeal to all those interested in the fields of gender studies, women’s studies and women’s history and politics. Lori J. Marso is Professor of Political Science and Former Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Union College in Schenectady, New York, USA. In Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers Lori Marso has brought together an excellent collection of accessible yet incisive, rich and original semi-biographical essays on key feminist thinkers, ranging from Sappho and Sojourner Truth to Nawal El Saadawi and Judith Butler. The volume is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in feminist thinking in all its variety and complexity. Moya Lloyd, Professor of Political Theory, Loughborough University, UK Showing readers that feminist theory remains one of the most exciting sites for engaging questions of both political thought and action, Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers creates a remarkable conversation between feminist theorists past and present. Considering questions of identity, freedom, power, justice, desire, autonomy, inclusion, difference, and what ‘counts’ as feminism, Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers offers readers a thought-provoking vision of the past and future of feminist theory. Cristina Beltrán, Associate Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, USA Lori Marso has done an artful job of selecting authors to tell the stories of feminism. This is a delightful collection of the intellectual contributions of a range of feminist thinkers. Falguni A. Sheth, Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Emory University

This chapter focuses on Crystal N. Feimster, the historian who instead wanted to practice law when she entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a freshman in 1990. Feimster had decided on a career in the legal profession not out of some compelling interest in law but because it provided a valid excuse for turning down a four-year academic scholarship that required a commitment to teaching in the North Carolina public schools upon graduation. She had been awarded the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Scholarship, and had she accepted the award, it would have meant not only having to commit to teaching but also having to give her dream of attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill because the fellowship committee required that she attend the university of its choice: Appalachian State University.

Wood reviews Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching by Crystal N. Feimster.

Carrigan reviews Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching by Crystal N. Feimster.

[Feimster] (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) reminds readers that Americans have fallen short of the ideal of rule by law as she documents home-grown terrorism aimed at African Americans (men, women, and children) in the South from the post- Reconstruction era to the 1930s. Two southern women, Rebecca Felton and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, however, emerge heroically fighting vigilante \"justice\" - lynching.