The experience and work of motherhood remained understudied for generations, but since the 1970s, scholars have engaged with the topic in diverse ways.

Critical race theory has become a focus of conservative legislation, often with little understanding of its meaning and history.

A wave of academic periodicals devoted to theory started appearing in the 1970s. Criticism wasn't far behind.

The literary critic Walter Benn Michaels challenges the prevailing trends of postmodernist theory.