title: on the subject of the feminist business: re-reading Flannery OConnor
author: Teresa Caruso
description: The Author: Teresa Caruso earned her Ph.D. in Literature and Criticism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with her work on Flannery OConnor and the feminine grotesque. Her scholarly activities continue to focus on feminist re-evaluations of OConnors fiction. She currently teaches literature and composition at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, in Erie, Pennsylvania.
zlib_text: “Written in clear and trenchant prose with a decent dose of the author’s great sense of irony, Sheila
  Jeﬀreys’ Trigger Warning is an autobiography of intellectual honesty and political courage. Reading
  this book provides a whole education in lesbian feminism through the eyes and life of one of our
  leading scholar-activists.”
  — Janice G. Raymond, author of A Passion for Friends, Women as Wombs and Not a Choice,
  Not a Job
  “From the sleepy Maltese village of her childhood to the wild beauty of Australian Christmases among
  the sand dunes, via the ferment of the Women’s Liberation Movement and back again, Sheila Jeﬀreys
  takes you on an exhilarating journey through a lesbian feminist life where the personal has been truly
  political. One of the world’s most important and in�uential radical feminist thinkers, Jeﬀreys now
  reveals herself to be a gied, thoroughly engaging and sometimes quite hilarious storyteller. No
  trigger warning from me, rather the ‘Oyez, oyez!’ of the town crier – women, r