Oy Pioneer! follows feminist Jewish wit and professor Sondra Lear as she makes her inimitable way through the world of learning. As if Mel Brooks and Erica Jong had joined forces to recreate ""Sex in the City"" for the intellectual set, this novel mixes feminist and Jewish humour with satire.

Marleen S. Barr teaches at Montclair State University and is a visiting scholar at Columbia University. Her many works include Genre Fission and Feminist Fabulation and, as editor, Envisioning the Future and the science fiction issue of the journal PMLA.