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Book SynopsisThe second volume of Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies addresses the complexities and inherent paradoxes within the expansive knowledge project known as Women's and Gender Studies for audiences both inside and adjacent to the field. Each of the volume's chapters identifies and critically examines a key term that circulates in this field, exploring how the term has come to be understood and mobilized within its everyday narratives and practices.
In constructing provocative genealogies for their terms, authors explicate the roles that this language, and the narratives attached to it, play in producing and limiting possible versions of the field. The ongoing aim of Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies, both in the original volume and this entirely new extension, is to trace and expose important paradoxes, ironies, and contradictions embedded in the field from its high theory to its casual conversations that rely on these terms. Forging collective conversati
Trade Review
Like Braithwaite and Orr’s first Rethinking project, this collection is a valuable resource for anyone interested in feminist studies and its ongoing academic transformations. Contributions both introduce and defamiliarize WGS keywords, routing them through diverse genealogies to activate new theoretical and political possibilities. This collection undertakes another round of “rethinking” that risks undoing what we think we know about Women and Gender Studies as an academic formation. A must-read for teachers and students alike.
S.Trimble, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream WGSI, University of Toronto
Not a recasting of its predecessor, Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies Volume II expands on the critical vision, personal stakes, and political calculus that inhabits the field, with broad implications for doing feminist work in an increasingly authoritarian global present. Diverse, insightful, and affectively powerful, the original essays gathered here demonstrate the vitality of contemporary feminist scholarship.
Robyn Wiegman, Professor, Literature and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Duke University
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why Rethink Women’s and Gender Studies Now? Section 1: Foundational Assumptions 1. Indigenous Feminism 2. Femininity 3. Citizenship 4. Inclusion 5. Intersex 6. Expertise Section 2. Ubiquitous Descriptions 7. Belonging 8. The Ph.D. 9: Nation 10. Women 11. Innocence Section 3. Epistemologies Rethought 12. Genealogy 13. Generation 14. Critical 15. Choice 16. Self-Care 17. Consent Section 4. Silences and Disavowals 18. Settler Colonialism 19. Asexuality 20. Cis 21. Disability 22. Nonhuman Animals Section 5. Establishment Challenges 23. Humanitarian 24. Sexual Violence 25. The Gaze 26. Transdisciplinarity 27. Transformation 28. Branding Conclusion: Continuing the Conversation Works cited Index
