| Women's Studies on Its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change Contributor(s): Wiegman, Robyn (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0822329506 ISBN-13: 9780822329503 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $118.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2002 Annotation: ""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" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 305.407 |
| LCCN: 2002004596 |
| Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.44" H x 6.16" W x 9.76" (1.86 lbs) 512 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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. |