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Book SynopsisTackles the political and institutional challenges that women's studies has faced since its integration into university curricula. This book embraces feminism not as a set of prescriptions, but as a critical stance, one that seeks to interrogate and disrupt prevailing systems of gender.
Trade Review“With its combination of landmark and new contributions,
Women's Studies on the Edge will be a valuable addition to the library of any feminist scholar.” - Elizabeth Groeneveld,
Third Space“This collection of eight essays, edited by Joan Wallach Scott, discusses the impact of institutional success on women’s studies programs in the United States. . . . All the essays, each thoughtful in their own right, represent ideas that have unevenly infused academia but that continue to be salient.” - Susie S. Porter,
Affilia“
Women’s Studies on the Edge . . . opens possibilities for a vibrant, transformed future for women’s studies.” - Barbara Scott Winkler,
Feminist Formations“An important acquisition for institutions that have (or are in the process of setting up) programs in women’s studies, gender studies, or cultural studies. Essential.” -
N. B. Rosenthal,
Choice“
Women’s Studies on the Edge . . . opens possibilities for a vibrant, transformed future for women’s studies.” -- Barbara Scott Winkler * Feminist Formations *
“An important acquisition for institutions that have (or are in the process of setting up) programs in women’s studies, gender studies, or cultural studies. Essential.” -- N. B. Rosenthal * Choice *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Feminism's Critical Edge / Joan Wallach Scott 1
I. Over the Edge
The Impossibility of Women's Studies / Wendy Brown 17
Feminism, Institutionalism, and the Idiom of Failure / Robyn Wiegman 39
II. Edged Out
Teaching and Research in Unavailable Intersections / Afsaneh Najmabadi 69
Feminism, Democracy, and Empire: Islam and the War of Terror / Saba Mahmood 81
Transfeminism and the Future of Gender / Gayle Salamon 115
III. Edging In
Discipline and Vanish: Feminism, the Resistance to Theory, and the Politics of Cultural Studies / Ellen Rooney 139
Whither Black Women's Studies: Interview / Beverly Guy-Sheftall with Evelynn M. Hammonds 155
Success and Its Failures / Biddy Martin 169
Works Cited 199
Contributors 211
Index 215
