Women's studies on its own : a next wave reader in institutional change / edited by Robyn Wiegman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wiegman, Robyn.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Next wave.

Next wave

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's studies.

Women's studies--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (515 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The future of a retheorized women's studies in an increasingly institutionalized context.

Contents:

Introduction : on location / Robyn Wiegman

Feminist cultural literacy : translating differences, cannibal options / Sneja Gunew

Transnational practices and interdisciplinary feminist scholarship : refiguring women's and gender studies / Caren Kaplan and Inderpal Grewal

Notes form the (Non)field : teaching and theorizing women of color / Rachel Lee

The progress of gender : whither "women"? / Robyn Wiegman

The present and our past : Simone de Beauvoir, Descartes, and presentism in the historiography of feminism / Jane O. Newman.

Contending with disciplinarity / Kathleen M. Blee

The past in our present : theorizing the activist project of women's studies / Bonnie Zimmerman

Rethinking collectivity : Chicago feminism, Ahenian democracy, and the consumer university / Judith Kegan Gardiner

From politics to professionalism : cultural change in women's studies / Jean C. Robinson

Battle-weary feminists and supercharged girls : generational differences and outsider status in women's studies / Devoney Looser

Taking account of women's studies / Diane Elam.

Nice work, if you can get it

and if you can't? Building women's studies without tenure lines / Robyn R. Warhol

The politics of "excellence" / Jeanette McVicker

Academic housework : women's studies and second shifting / Dale M. Bauer

(In)Different spaces : feminist journeys from the academy to the mall

/ Sivagami Subbaraman

Analogy and complicity : women's studies, lesbian/gay studies, and capitalism / Miranda Joseph

Institutional success and political vulnerability : a lesson in the importance of allies / Marcia Westkott.

Life after women's studies : graduates and the labor market / Maryanne Dever, Denise Cuthburt, and Lindsey Pollak

Strangers in the classroom / Sabina Sawheney

"Women of color in the U.S." : pedagogical reflectons on the politics of "the name" / Minoo Moallem

Negotiating the politics of experimental learning in women's studies : lessons from the Community Action Project / Nancy A. Naples

What should every women's studies major know? Reflections on the capstone seminar / Susan Stanford Friedman.

Subversive couplings : on antiracism and postcolonialism in graduate women's studies / Laura E. Donaldson, Anne Donadey, and Jael Stilliman

Afterword : continuity and change in women's studies / Gloria Bowles.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-489) and index.

ISBN:

9786612920561

9781282920569

1282920561

9780822384311

0822384310

OCLC:

850217678