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Title Women's studies on its own : a next wave reader in institutional change / edited by Robyn Wiegman
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 502 pages)
Series Next wave
Next wave (Duke University Press)
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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, Athenian 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 reflections 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
Summary The future of a retheorized women's studies in an increasingly institutionalized context
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-489) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Women's studies.
Women's studies -- United States
women's studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Women's studies
Vrouwenstudies.
Sekseverschillen.
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Wiegman, Robyn, editor.
ISBN 9780822384311
0822384310
1282920561
9781282920569
9786612920561
6612920564