The essays in this journal are a collective effort in feminist scholarship. What is feminist scholarship? The intent and focus of feminist scholarship is wonderfully illustrated in a student\u27s response to a handbill taped to my office door that announces: What is Feminism? Come and Find Out. First Feminist Mass Meeting:\u27 On moving closer, one reads: February 17, 1914, 8:00 p.m., People\u27s Institute.” The student commented in astonishment, I didn\u27t know there were feminists in 1914! Without knowing it, the student captured a central aspect of feminist scholarship: feminist scholarship is scholarship that addresses the I didn\u27t knows which surround the life histories and experiences of women who, in any time period, quest ...