Magali Cornier Michael is associate professor of English and co-director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. She is the author of Feminism and the Post-modern Impulse: Post-World War II Fiction as well as articles on such authors as John Fowles, Angela Carter, D. M. Thomas, Doris Lessing, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, and Toni Morrison.