Is academic feminism dead? : theory in practice / edited by The Social Justice Group at The Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

University of Minnesota Social Justice Group., Content Provider.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Feminism and higher education.

Women's studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What role does theory play in academia today? How can feminist theory be made more relevant to the very real struggles undertaken by women of all professions, races, and sexual orientation? How can it be directed into more effective social activism, and how is theory itself a form of practice? Feminist theory and political activism need not-indeed cannot-be distinct and alienated from one another. To reconcile the gulf between word and deed, scholar-activists from a broad range of disciplines have come together here to explore the ways in which practice and theory intersect and interact.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; part I Theory Binds: The Perils of Retrofit; 1 Retrofit: Gender, Cultural, and Class Exclusions in American Studies; 2 Ethnocentrism/Essentialism: The Failure of the Ontological Cure; 3 Maternal Presumption: The Personal Politics of Reproductive Rights; 4 Sex, Gender, and Same-Sex Marriage; part II Storytelling: Sites of Empowerment, Sites of Exploitation; 5 The Virtual Anthropologist; 6 How History Matters: Complicating the Categories of "Western" and "Non-Western" Feminisms

7 Bringing It All Home to the Bacon: A Ph.D. (Packinghouse Daughter) Examines Her Legacy 8 Blood Ties and Blasphemy: American Indian Women and the Problem of History; 9 Ella Que Tiene Jefes y No Los Ve, Se Queda en Cueros: Chicana Intellectuals (Re)Creating Revolution; part III Starting Here, Starting Now: Challenges to Academic Practices; 10 Being Queer, Being Black: Living Out in Afro-American Studies; 11 Learning to Think and Teach about Race and Gender despite Graduate School: Obstacles Women of Color Graduate Students Face in Sociology; 12 Anger, Resentment, and the Place of Mind in Academia

13 Stupidity "Deconstructed"14 To Challenge Academic Individualism; Editors and Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8147-3996-2

0-585-42478-0

OCLC:

779828120