I have never forgotten the thrill I felt when I read Denise Riley’s (1981) History Workshop article ‘“The Free Mothers”: Pronatalism and Working Women in Industry at the End of the Last War in Britain’. I had found the article in the process of research on women and work, a long-standing preoccupation that continued after my 1978 book with Louise Tilly, Women, Work, and Family. I was newly arrived at Brown University, then (and now) a centre for feminist theoretical work of a kind I had not before experienced. At Brown, I was being exposed to post-structuralism and psychoanalysis and grappling with the ways (at once exciting and painful) in which they were changing my understanding of what analyses of gender entailed. At the end of her very long piece, which Denise in characteristic modesty referred to as ‘a bit of writing’ (Riley, 1981: 114), I was – as they say – blown away by this:

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“真理的红心”：丹尼斯·莱利的批判女权主义

当我阅读 Denise Riley (1981) 历史研讨会的文章“自由母亲”：英国上次战争结束时的生育和工业女性时，我永远不会忘记我的激动。我在研究女性和工作的过程中发现了这篇文章，这是我 1978 年与路易丝·蒂莉 (Louise Tilly) 合着《女性、工作和家庭》一书之后的长期关注。我刚到布朗大学，当时（现在）是一个我以前从未体验过的女权主义理论工作中心。在布朗大学，我接触到后结构主义和精神分析，并努力应对它们改变我对性别分析所包含的理解的方式（既令人兴奋又令人痛苦）。在她很长的文章的结尾，丹尼斯以特有的谦虚将其称为“一点写作”（Riley，1981：114），