Women's Studies on Its Own

Women's Studies on Its Own

A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change

  • Author: Wiegman, Robyn; Grewal, Inderpal; Kaplan, Caren; Gunew, Sneja
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Serie: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
  • ISBN: 9780822329503
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822384311
  • Place of publication:  Durham , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2002
  • Month: November
  • Pages: 512
  • DDC: 305.4/071
  • Language: English
"We thought the study of women would be a temporary phase; eventually we would all go back to our disciplines."—Gloria Bowles, From the Afterword

Since the 1970s, Women's Studies has grown from a volunteerist political project to a full-scale academic enterprise. Women's Studies on Its Own assesses the present and future of the field, demonstrating how institutionalization has extended a vital, ongoing intellectual project for a new generation of scholars and students.

Women’s Studies on Its Own considers the history, pedagogy, and curricula of Women’s Studies programs, as well as the field’s relation to the managed university. Both theoretically and institutionally grounded, the essays examine the pedagogical implications of various divisions of knowledge—racial, sexual, disciplinary, geopolitical, and economic. They look at the institutional practices that challenge and enable Women’s Studies—including interdisciplinarity, governance, administration, faculty review, professionalism, corporatism, fiscal autonomy, and fiscal constraint. Whether thinking about issues of academic labor, the impact of postcolonialism on Women’s Studies curricula, or the relation between education and the state, the contributors bring insight and wit to their theoretical deliberations on the shape of a transforming field.

Contributors.
Dale M. Bauer, Kathleen M. Blee, Gloria Bowles, Denise Cuthbert, Maryanne Dever, Anne Donadey, Laura Donaldson, Diane Elam, Susan Stanford Friedman, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Inderpal Grewal, Sneja Gunew, Miranda Joseph, Caren Kaplan, Rachel Lee, Devoney Looser, Jeanette McVicker, Minoo Moallem, Nancy A. Naples, Jane O. Newman, Lindsey Pollak, Jean C. Robinson, Sabina Sawhney, Jael Silliman, Sivagami Subbaraman, Robyn Warhol, Marcia Westkott, Robyn Wiegman, Bonnie Zimmerman

  • Contents
  • Robyn Wiegman : Introduction: On Location
  • I: Histories of the Present
    • Sneja Gunew : Feminist Cultural Literacy: Translating Differences, Cannibal Options
    • Caren Kaplan and Inderpal Grewal : Transnational Practices and Interdisciplinary Feminist Scholarship: Refiguring Women’s and Gender Studies
    • Rachel Lee : Notes from the (Non)Field: Teaching and Theorizing Women of Color
    • Robyn Wiegman : The Progress of Gender: Whither ‘‘Women’’?
    • Jane O. Newman : The Present and Our Past: Simone de Beauvoir, Descartes, and Presentism in the Historiography of Feminism
  • II: Institutional Pedagogies (A Forum)
    • Kathleen M. Blee : Contending with Disciplinarity
    • Bonnie Zimmerman : The Past in Our Present: Theorizing the Activist Project of Women’s Studies
    • Judith Kegan Gardiner : Rethinking Collectivity: Chicago Feminism, Athenian Democracy, and the Consumer University
    • Jean C. Robinson : From Politics to Professionalism: Cultural Change in Women’s Studies
    • Devoney Looser : Battle-Weary Feminists and Supercharged Grrls: Generational Differences and Outsider Status in Women’s Studies Administration
    • Diane Elam : Taking Account of Women’s Studies
    • Robyn R. Warhol : Nice Work, If You Can Get It—and If You Can’t? Building Women’s Studies Without Tenure Lines
    • Jeanette Mcvicker : The Politics of ‘‘Excellence’’
  • III: In The Shadow of Capital
    • Dale M. Bauer : Academic Housework: Women’s Studies and Second Shifting
    • Divagami Subbaraman : (In)Different Spaces: Feminist Journeys from the Aca demy to the Mall
    • Miranda Joseph : Analogy and Complicity: Women’s Studies, Lesbian/Gay Studies, and Capitalism
    • Marcia Westkott : Institutional Success and Political Vulnerability: A Lesson in the Importance of Allies
    • Maryanne Dever, Denise Cuthbert, and Lindsey Pollak : Life After Women’s Studies: Graduates and the Labor Market
  • IV: Critical Classrooms
    • Sabina Sawhney : Strangers in the Classroom
    • Minoo Moallem : ‘‘Women of Color in the U.S.’’: Pedagogical Reflections on the Politics of ‘‘the Name’’
    • Nancy A. Naples : Negotiating the Politics of Experiential Learning in Women’s Studies: Lessons from the Community Action Project
    • Susan Stanford Friedman : What Should Every Women’s Studies Major Know? Reflections on the Capstone Seminar
    • Laura E. Donaldson, Anne Donadey, and Jael Silliman : Subversive Couplings: On Antiracism and Postcolonialism in Graduate Women’s Studies
    • Gloria Bowles: Afterword: Continuity and Change in Women’s Studies
  • Bibliography: Locating Feminism
  • Contributors
  • Index

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