{"product_id":"womens-studies-on-its-own-9780822329862","title":"Womens Studies on Its Own","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the 1970s, Womens Studies has grown from a volunteerist political project to a full scale academic enterprise. This book assesses the present and future of the field, demonstrating how institutionalization has extended a vital, ongoing intellectual project for a generation of scholars and students.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWomen’s Studies on Its Own\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eNo More Separate Spheres! A Next Wave American Studies Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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), \u003ci\u003eWomen's Studies on Its Own\u003c\/i\u003e offers both a rationale for and a critical analysis of the state of the field.”—Jill Dolan, author of\u003ci\u003e Geographies of Learning: Theory and Practice, Activism and Performance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"From the wealth of material and argument in the book, it is possible to construct a model women’s studies program. . . . \u003ci\u003eWomen’s Studies on Its Own \u003c\/i\u003e offers much to ‘change life.’. . .\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e -- David L. Sterling * History: Reviews of New Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: On Location \/ Robyn Wiegman 1\u003cbr\u003e I: Histories of the Present \u003cbr\u003e Feminist Cultural Literacy: Translating Differences, Cannibal Options \/ Sneja Gunew 47\u003cbr\u003e Transnational Practices and Interdisciplinary Feminist Scholarship: Refiguring Women's and Gender Studies \/ Caren Kaplan and Inderpal Grewal 66\u003cbr\u003e Notes from the (Non)Field: Teaching and Theorizing Women of Color \/ Rachel Lee 82\u003cbr\u003e The Progress of Gender: Whither \"Women\"? \/ Robyn Wiegman 106\u003cbr\u003e The Present and Our Past: Simone de Beauvoir, Descartes, and Presentism in the Historiography of Feminism \/ Jane O. Newman 141\u003cbr\u003e II: Institutional Pedagogies (A Forum) \u003cbr\u003e Contending with Disciplinarity \/ Kathleen M. Blee 177\u003cbr\u003e The Past in Our Present: Theorizing the Activist Project of Women's Studies \/ Bonnie Zimmerman 183\u003cbr\u003e Rethinking Collectivity: Chicago Feminism, Athenian Democracy, and the Consumer University \/ Judith Kegan Gardiner 191\u003cbr\u003e From Politics to Professionalism: Cultural Change in Women's Studies \/ Jean C. Robinson 202\u003cbr\u003e Battle-Weary Feminists and Supercharged Grrls: Generational Differences and Outsider Status in Women's Studies Administration \/ Devoney Looser 211\u003cbr\u003e Taking Account of Women's Studies \/ Diane Elam 218\u003cbr\u003e Nice Work, If You Can Get It---and If You Can't? Building Women's Studies Without Tenure Lines \/ Robyn R. Warhol 224\u003cbr\u003e The Politics of \"Excellence\" \/ Jeanette McVicker 233\u003cbr\u003e III. In the Shadow of Capital \u003cbr\u003e Academic Housework: Women's Studies and Second Shifting \/ Dale M. Bauer 245\u003cbr\u003e (In)Different Spaces: Feminist Journeys from the Academy to the Mall \/ Sivagami Subbaraman 258\u003cbr\u003e Analogy and Complicity: Women's Studies, Lesbian\/Gay Studies, and Capitalism \/ Miranda Joseph 267\u003cbr\u003e Institutional Success and Political Vulnerability: A Lesson in the Importance of Allies \/ Marcia Westkott 293\u003cbr\u003e Life After Women's Studies: Graduates and the Labor Market \/ Maryanne Dever, Denise Cuthbert, and Lindsey Pollak 312\u003cbr\u003e IV: Critical Classrooms \u003cbr\u003e Strangers in the Classroom \/ Sabina Sawhney 341\u003cbr\u003e \"Women of Color in the U.S.\": Pedagogical Reflections on the Politics of \"the Name\" \/ Minoo Moallem 368\u003cbr\u003e Negotiating the Politics of Experiential Learning in Women's Studies: Lessons from the Community Action Project \/ Nancy A. Naples 383\u003cbr\u003e What Should Every Women's Studies Major Know? Reflections on the Capstone Seminar \/ Susan Stanford Friedman 416\u003cbr\u003e Subversive Couplings: On Antiracism and Postcolonialism in Graduate Women's Studies \/ Laura E. Donaldson, Anne Donadey, and Jael Silliman 438\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Continuity and Change in Women's Studies \/ Gloria Bowles 457\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography: Locating Feminism 465\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 491\u003cbr\u003e Index 499","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406030971223,"sku":"9780822329862","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822329862.jpg?v=1730494305","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/womens-studies-on-its-own-9780822329862","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}