Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women

Enzyme Functionality serves as a conduit for trailblazing research in enzyme engineering-relating current understanding of sequence families, the new notion of enzyme structure classes, and modern methods in protein engineering, design, and directed evolution to accelerate the development of novel enzyme functionalities. This reference gathers the diverse perspectives of nearly 80 scientists from around the globe and surveys all leading rational and random approaches to the artificial evolution of enzymes. Citing more than 1500 notable works, it outlines assays for enzyme activity, stability, and specificity and a wide variety of site-directed, redesign, and evolutionary engineering methods.

Table of Contents:
Preface 1. Feminist Genealogies: Connecting Women's Lives 2. Women's Situation, I: The Material Constraints of Femininity 3. Women's Situations, II: Existential Experiments with the Feminine 4. Love in Exile: Reading the Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft and Germaine de Staël 5. A Feminists Search for Love: Emma Goldman on the Politics of Marriage, Love, Sexuality, and the Feminine 6. Maternal Genealogies and Feminist Consciousness: Simone de Beauvoir on Mothers, Daughters, and the Potential for Sisterhood 7. Wanting it All: Contemporary Struggles for Freedom and Fulfillment

About the Author :
Lori Marso is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Women's and Gender Studies program at Union College in Schenectady, NY.

Review :
"In creating a conversation among pioneering feminist thinkers, who struggled to resist the demands of conventional femininity as a key component of their political activism, Lori Marso makes a critical contribution to building an "imagined community" of women as a strategy for continuing feminist struggles to achieve meaningful freedom." —Mary Hawkesworth, Editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society "Creatively exploring the complexities of ‘living as a woman’ and ‘thinking as a feminist’ in the writings of Germaine de Stael, Mary Wollstonecraft, Emma Goldman, and Simone de Beauvoir, Lori Marso breathes new life into the familiar feminist slogan, ‘the personal is political.’" —Linda Zerilli, author of Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom "...Marso's work, in my view, exemplifies an admirable tendency in recent feminist scholarship to reconnect and engage with classical feminist authors. The author envisages her project as opening a dialogue with these feminist mothers and potentially inspiring a shared consciousness among women of different races, classes, and cultures of the role that restrictive social norms play in their lives." --Regina F. Titunik, University of Hawaii at Hilo