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Ithink of these essays as my Pembroke Center essays for they were all inspired by discussions that took place during my years as director of Brown University's Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. There, a remarkable group of scholars engaged in the kind of direct and probing thinking that changes minds and opens new directions for research and writing. In the Pembroke Center seminar I was forced to take post-structuralist theory seriously and wrestle with its implications for a social historian. The process was at once rewarding and difficult. It addressed many of the most pressing philosophical questions I had confronted as a feminist trying to write women's history, but, at the same time, it brought me to a critique more fundamental than I had anticipated of the presuppositions of my discipline. Because I learned about post-structuralism largely from literary scholars, I also met problems …