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1 online resource (399 pages) |
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; pa r t i Theory Binds: The Perils of Retrofit; 1 Retrofit: Gender, Cultural, and Class Exclusions inAmerican Studies; 2 Ethnocentrism/Essentialism: The Failure of theOntological Cure; 3 Maternal Presumption: The Personal Politics ofReproductive Rights; 4 Sex, Gender, and Same-Sex Marriage; pa r t i i Storytelling: Sites of Empowerment, Sitesof Exploitation; 5 The Virtual Anthropologist; 6 How History Matters: Complicating the Categoriesof "Western" and "Non-Western" Feminisms |
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7 Bringing It All Home to the Bacon: A Ph. D.(Packinghouse Daughter) Examines Her Legacy8 Blood Ties and Blasphemy: American IndianWomen and the Problem of History; 9 Ella Que Tiene Jefes y No Los Ve, Se Queda en Cueros:Chicana Intellectuals (Re)Creating Revolution; pa r t i i i Starting Here, Starting Now: Challengesto Academic Practices; 10 Being Queer, Being Black: Living Out inAfro-American Studies; 11 Learning to Think and Teach about Race andGender despite Graduate School: ObstaclesWomen of Color Graduate Students Facein Sociology; 12 Anger, Resentment, and the Place of Mindin Academia |
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13 Stupidity "Deconstructed"14 To Challenge Academic Individualism; Editors and Contributors; Index |
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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. The |
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Women's studies.
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Feminism and higher education.
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Feminist theory.
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women's studies.
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Feminism and higher education.
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Feminist theory.
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Women's studies.
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Gender Studies & Sexuality.
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Gender & Ethnic Studies.
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Social Sciences.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814739969 |
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0814739962 |
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0585424780 |
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9780585424781 |
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