Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature is a publication associated with the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. Its current editor is Holly S. Laird, and the current managing editor is Linda S. Frazier. According to its statement of purpose, Tulsa Studies is devoted to the study of the relations between women and writing of every period, in every language. They look to publish “literary, historicist, and theoretical work.” One can see this variety of work in recent issues of the publication. Each issue has a theme. For the spring 2002 issue, the theme was “Feminism and Time.” Articles in this issue include “Telling Time in Feminist Theory,” by Rita Felski, and “Feminism, Ethics, and History, or What is the ‘Post’ in Postfeminism,” by Jennifer Fleissner. The fall 2001 issue, “Women Writing Across the World,” contains a narrative of Spanish women writers of the nineties, by Carmen de Urioste. From this selection of articles, one can see that Tulsa Studies, like many of the other publications we’ve looked at, doesn’t shy away from issues that have been controversial in feminist studies, such as postcolonialism and multiethnicity, and the issue of what “postfeminism” means and implies as opposed to “feminism.” These articles are often indebted to major literary critics and scholars.Fleissner’s articles cites theorist Jacques Derrida as the source of feminist scholar Toril Moi’s coinage of the term postfeminism. The same issue also pays homage to seminal feminist Helene Cixous in an article titled “The Colonial Outsider: Helence Cixous’s Les Reveries de la femme sauvage.” Simone de Beauvoir, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, and Susan Gubar are among the prominent feminists cited on numerous occasions. Another article in the spring 2002 issue, Betty Joseph’s “Gendering Time in Globalization: The Belatedness of the Other Woman and Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy,” unravels the “time lag” between the modern, white, middle-class female, and the third-world, non-white female. This article leans frequently on feminist/postcolonial scholar Gayatri Spivak’s work.Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory is a publication concerned with the issues of performance art, feminist literary criticism, and feminist theory. The first issue of Women and Performance came out in 1983, and has been published semi-annually by the Women and Performance Project, Inc. at the New York University/Tisch School of the Arts Department of Performance Studies. Its founding editors were Jill Dolan, Trudy Scott, Anne B. Wyma, Judy Rosenthal, and Celia Weisman. In a statement in their second issue, the editors laid out their aims: “Only by creating a vital dialogue with and balance between readers will Women and Performance authentically serve as a catalyst for intense polemics, vigorous debate, personal empowerment, and societal transformation.” Here, we see the same concern shared by many other feminist journals, that their publication will have practical results, will serves as a “catalyst for change.”Works CitedTulsa Studies in Women’s Literature Fall 2001Lori PropheterEnglish 401Bibliographic Survey of JournalsOct. 25, 2002Bridging the Gaps:Journals in Feminist Criticism and TheoryProminent feminist critic Susan Gubar titles her analysis of the condition of modern feminist theory and criticism, “What Ails Feminist Criticism?” In Gubar’s, and many other contemporary feminist scholars’, view, modern feminism suffers from a variety of wounds. Though she is careful to warn the reader against potential racist interpretations of her argument, the fact cannot be avoided that Gubar exclusively criticizes non-white feminists. Her concern is the how the integrity of feminism will hold in the face of inner rifts due to differences in class, race, and sexual orientation. These divisions had germinated in silence, but exploded into expression in the 80s, as the second wave was dissolving and the hegemony of white, straight, middle-class feminism was revealed and began to be undermined. Contemporary feminism faces the threats of disintegrating into potentially less effective feminisms, or of being subsumed by the laissez-faire attitude of postfeminism, or of having its revolutionary potential cut short by integration into the liberal mainstream. A survey of journals devoted to feminist theory and criticism will reveal how modern feminists are coping with these issues. Most will show a strong desire to face them head on, and build new bridges between the splintered subgroups. Contemporary feminists are building on the approach that feminist scholar Teresa de Lauretis hinted at in 1984 when she wrote, “not onlydoes feminism exist despite those differences, but, most important, as we are just now beginning to realize, it cannot continue to exist without them” (14)Feminist Studies is considered to be one of the premiere journals on feminism. It is published three times a year, and receives some administrative support from the women’s studies department at the University of Maryland. The current editor and manager is Claire G. Moses. Feminist Studies was founded in 1969, at the ground level of the second wave, and is devoted to encouraging feminist analysis of issues, and opening new areas of research, with a firm belief in the power of feminism to change women’s condition. As is stated in their statement of purpose, “For us, feminist thought represents a transformation of consciousness, social forms, and modes of action.” Though those beliefs have not changed through the years, Feminist Studies is determined to keep its focus up-to-date. The most current issue of Feminist Studies, from summer 2002, is devoted to reassessing the second wave of feminism. Sara Evan’s article, “Re-Viewing the Second Wave,” addresses the fracturing of feminism since the 80s, and emphasizes the need to weave these divergent strands into a coherent history. Feminist Studies plays an important role in getting young, fresh voices into the discourse community. Three articles in the summer issue are from younger feminist scholars who weren’t old enough to be active participants in the early days of the second wave. These articles, titled “Expanding the Boundaries of the Women’s Movement: Black Feminism and the Struggle for Women’s Rights,” by Premilla Nadasen; “Living a Feminist Lifestyle: The Intersection of Theory and Action in a Lesbian Feminist