Joan Callahan
University of Kentucky

This Issue: The APA Committee on the Status of Women has made a commitment to publishing reports on conferences of special interest to feminist philosophers. In this issue, Jennifer Hansen reports on Penn State University’s 1999 conference, Legacies of Simone de Beauvoir. De Beauvoir’s work has been extremely important to a number of feminist philosophers, as several of the other pieces in this issue indicate. Hansen’s report also offers some interesting reflections on autobiographical work, which is the focus of two other pieces here. All of these other pieces are book reviews. There has been a genuine explosion of publications in feminist philosophy in recent years and, given the continuing paucity of publishing venues that take feminist philosophy as a focus, one of the responsibilities of the Newsletter is getting out the word on new books in feminist philosophy. Space constraints have prevented publishing many reviews in recent issues. By way of reparation, most of the present issue is dedicated to book reviews.

And the Next: Ann Garry has graciously agreed to guest edit the next issue of the Newsletter (Spring 2001). Continuing a conversation begun at the APA Pacific Division Meeting in the spring of 2000, the topic is an extremely important one for feminist scholars across the disciplines, namely, "Intrafeminist Criticism and the Rules of Engagement."