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Format: 1 online resource (512 p.) : , 7 tables

ISBN: 9780822384311

Series Statement: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

Content: "We thought the study of women would be a temporary phase; eventually we would all go back to our disciplines."—Gloria Bowles, From the AfterwordSince the 1970s, Women's Studies has grown from a volunteerist political project to a full-scale academic enterprise. Women's Studies on Its Own assesses the present and future of the field, demonstrating how institutionalization has extended a vital, ongoing intellectual project for a new generation of scholars and students.Women’s Studies on Its Own considers the history, pedagogy, and curricula of Women’s Studies programs, as well as the field’s relation to the managed university. Both theoretically and institutionally grounded, the essays examine the pedagogical implications of various divisions of knowledge—racial, sexual, disciplinary, geopolitical, and economic. They look at the institutional practices that challenge and enable Women’s Studies—including interdisciplinarity, governance, administration, faculty review, professionalism, corporatism, fiscal autonomy, and fiscal constraint. Whether thinking about issues of academic labor, the impact of postcolonialism on Women’s Studies curricula, or the relation between education and the state, the contributors bring insight and wit to their theoretical deliberations on the shape of a transforming field.Contributors. Dale M. Bauer, Kathleen M. Blee, Gloria Bowles, Denise Cuthbert, Maryanne Dever, Anne Donadey, Laura Donaldson, Diane Elam, Susan Stanford Friedman, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Inderpal Grewal, Sneja Gunew, Miranda Joseph, Caren Kaplan, Rachel Lee, Devoney Looser, Jeanette McVicker, Minoo Moallem, Nancy A. Naples, Jane O. Newman, Lindsey Pollak, Jean C. Robinson, Sabina Sawhney, Jael Silliman, Sivagami Subbaraman, Robyn Warhol, Marcia Westkott, Robyn Wiegman, Bonnie Zimmerman

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , Introduction: On Location -- , I: HISTORIES OF THE PRESENT -- , Feminist Cultural Literacy: Translating Differences, Cannibal Options -- , Transnational Practices and Interdisciplinary Feminist Scholarship: Refiguring Women’s and Gender Studies -- , Notes from the (Non)Field: Teaching and Theorizing Women of Color -- , The Progress of Gender: Whither ‘‘Women’’? -- , The Present and Our Past: Simone de Beauvoir, Descartes, and Presentism in the Historiography of Feminism -- , II: INSTITUTIONAL PEDAGOGIES (A FORUM) -- , Contending with Disciplinarity -- , The Past in Our Present: Theorizing the Activist Project of Women’s Studies -- , Rethinking Collectivity: Chicago Feminism, Athenian Democracy, and the Consumer University -- , From Politics to Professionalism: Cultural Change in Women’s Studies -- , Battle-Weary Feminists and Supercharged Grrls: Generational Differences and Outsider Status in Women’s Studies Administration -- , Taking Account of Women’s Studies -- , Nice Work, If You Can Get It—and If You Can’t? Building Women’s Studies Without Tenure Lines -- , The Politics of ‘‘Excellence’’ -- , III: IN THE SHADOW OF CAPITAL -- , Academic Housework: Women’s Studies and Second Shifting -- , (In)Different Spaces: Feminist Journeys from the Academy to a Mall -- , Analogy and Complicity: Women’s Studies, Lesbian/Gay Studies, and Capitalism -- , Institutional Success and Political Vulnerability: A Lesson in the Importance of Allies -- , Life After Women’s Studies: Graduates and the Labor Market -- , IV: CRITICAL CLASSROOMS -- , Strangers in the Classroom -- , ‘‘Women of Color in the U.S.’’: Pedagogical Reflections on the Politics of ‘‘the Name’’ -- , Negotiating the Politics of Experiential Learning in Women’s Studies: Lessons from the Community Action Project -- , What Should Every Women’s Studies Major Know? Reflections on the Capstone Seminar -- , Subversive Couplings: On Antiracism and Postcolonialism in Graduate Women’s Studies -- , Afterword: Continuity and Change in Women’s Studies -- , Bibliography: Locating Feminism -- , Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822384311

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822384311

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822384311