Notes
This paper is an abridged version of the introduction to Rumours From the Cauldron: Two Decades of Feminist Essays, Reviews and Reportage by Valerie Miner, forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press in 1991. The paper was delivered on 29 December 1990 at a session of the Modern Language Association in Chicago, Illinois. The title of the session was: “Navigating into the Feminist Future(s)’.