"Women as the Sponsoring Category": A Forum on Academic Feminism and British Women's Writing.

The article presents a year-long discussion among Ann Cvetkovich, Susan Fraiman, Susan Stanford Friedman and Miranda M. Yaggi on the topic of women's studies. The online conversation is a continuation of the forum "Feminist Theory Today: Its Margins in the Academy, Its Meanings in the World" at the 2008 18th- and 19th-century British Women Writers Conference. Fraiman talks about "New Women's Studies" and refers to 1980s when the topic was an accepted category but Friedman points out that the category had a continuing presence.