Women's Studies on Its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change

Published by Duke University Press 2002

Women's Studies on Its Own

A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change

Edited by: Robyn Wiegman , Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan
With contributions by: Sneja Gunew

In the series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384311

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About this book

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

Author / Editor information

Robyn Wiegman is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and the Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women’s Studies at Duke University. She is the author of American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender and coeditor of The Futures of American Studies, both published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

“Women’s Studies on Its Own charts the course academic feminism has taken in the thirty years since the founding of the first Women’s Studies program. Even better, it offers a game plan for the next thirty years. It's indispensable.”—Cathy N. Davidson, coeditor of No More Separate Spheres! A Next Wave American Studies Reader

“As we enter something of a ‘post-identity politics’ era, one in which colleges and universities are increasingly held accountable for the kinds of knowledge they produce (and how and for whom), Women's Studies on Its Own offers both a rationale for and a critical analysis of the state of the field.”—Jill Dolan, author of Geographies of Learning: Theory and Practice, Activism and Performance

"From the wealth of material and argument in the book, it is possible to construct a model women’s studies program. . . . Women’s Studies on Its Own offers much to ‘change life.’. . ."

-- David L. Sterling History: Reviews of New Books

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction: On Location Robyn Wiegman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I: HISTORIES OF THE PRESENT
Feminist Cultural Literacy: Translating Differences, Cannibal Options Sneja Gunew Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Transnational Practices and Interdisciplinary Feminist Scholarship: Refiguring Women’s and Gender Studies Caren Kaplan and Inderpal Grewal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
Notes from the (Non)Field: Teaching and Theorizing Women of Color Rachel Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
The Progress of Gender: Whither ‘‘Women’’? Robyn Wiegman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
The Present and Our Past: Simone de Beauvoir, Descartes, and Presentism in the Historiography of Feminism Jane O. Newman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
II: INSTITUTIONAL PEDAGOGIES (A FORUM)
Contending with Disciplinarity Kathleen M. Blee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
The Past in Our Present: Theorizing the Activist Project of Women’s Studies Bonnie Zimmerman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Rethinking Collectivity: Chicago Feminism, Athenian Democracy, and the Consumer University Judith Kegan Gardiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
From Politics to Professionalism: Cultural Change in Women’s Studies Jean C. Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
Battle-Weary Feminists and Supercharged Grrls: Generational Differences and Outsider Status in Women’s Studies Administration Devoney Looser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Taking Account of Women’s Studies Diane Elam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
Nice Work, If You Can Get It—and If You Can’t? Building Women’s Studies Without Tenure Lines Robyn R. Warhol Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
The Politics of ‘‘Excellence’’ Jeanette Mcvicker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
III: IN THE SHADOW OF CAPITAL
Academic Housework: Women’s Studies and Second Shifting Dale M. Bauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
(In)Different Spaces: Feminist Journeys from the Academy to a Mall Sivagami Subbaraman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
Analogy and Complicity: Women’s Studies, Lesbian/Gay Studies, and Capitalism Miranda Joseph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Institutional Success and Political Vulnerability: A Lesson in the Importance of Allies Marcia Westkott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Life After Women’s Studies: Graduates and the Labor Market Maryanne Dever, Denise Cuthbert and Lindsey Pollak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312
IV: CRITICAL CLASSROOMS
Strangers in the Classroom Sabina Sawhney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
‘‘Women of Color in the U.S.’’: Pedagogical Reflections on the Politics of ‘‘the Name’’ Minoo Moallem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	368
Negotiating the Politics of Experiential Learning in Women’s Studies: Lessons from the Community Action Project Nancy A. Naples Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
What Should Every Women’s Studies Major Know? Reflections on the Capstone Seminar Susan Stanford Friedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	416
Subversive Couplings: On Antiracism and Postcolonialism in Graduate Women’s Studies Laura E. Donaldson, Anne Donadey and Jael Silliman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	438
Afterword: Continuity and Change in Women’s Studies Gloria Bowles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
Bibliography: Locating Feminism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	465
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	491
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	499

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 512
Illustrations
- Other: 7 tables

eBook

Published: November 13, 2002
ISBN: 9780822384311