Description: A comprehensive examination of Kristeva's work from the seventies to the nineties.
Brief description: Sara Beardsworth is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University.
Review Quotes: "This is the best available study of Kristeva's thought. Beardsworth clearly and cleanly exposes the inner workings of the system of critical thought of this towering intellectual figures. This will become the primary text for understanding--one might even say for constructing--Kristeva's relationship to most of the diverse streams of contemporary feminism."