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Women's Studies on the Edge (A Differences Book) (Differences Books)

Women's Studies on the Edge (A Differences Book) (Differences Books)

Women's Studies on the Edge (A Differences Book) (Differences Books)
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Women's Studies on the Edge (A Differences Book) (Differences Books) Paperback - 2008

by Scott, Joan Wallach

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  • Title Women's Studies on the Edge (A Differences Book) (Differences Books)
  • Author Scott, Joan Wallach
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition New
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press Books, Durham
  • Publication date 2008-06-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX082234274X
  • ISBN 9780822342748 / 082234274X
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.27 x 0.58 in (23.42 x 15.93 x 1.47 cm)
  • Size 6.13x0.58x9.25
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Gender Studies
  • Library of Congress subjects Women's studies
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007053027
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.4
  • Quantity available 6

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Reader reviews for Women's Studies on the Edge (A Differences Book) (Differences Books)

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At many universities, women's studies programs have achieved department status, establishing tenure-track appointments, graduate programs, and consistent course enrollments. Yet, as Joan Wallach Scott notes in her introduction to this collection, in the wake of its institutional successes, women's studies has begun to lose its critical purchase. Feminism, the driving political force behind women's studies, is often regarded as an outmoded political position by many of today's students, and activism is no longer central to women's studies programs on many campuses. In Women's Studies on the Edge, leading feminist scholars tackle the critical, political, and institutional challenges that women's studies has faced since its widespread integration into university curricula.

The contributors to Women's Studies on the Edge embrace feminism not as a set of prescriptions but as a critical stance, one that seeks to interrogate and disrupt prevailing systems of gender. Refusing to perpetuate and protect orthodoxies, they ask tough questions about the impact of institutionalization on the once radical field of women's studies; about the ongoing difficulties of articulating women's studies with ethnic, queer, and race studies; and about the limits of liberal concepts of emancipation for understanding non-Western women. They also question the viability of continuing to ground women's studies in identity politics authorized by personal experience. The multiple interpretations in Women's Studies on the Edge sometimes overlap and sometimes stand in opposition to one another. The result is a collection that embodies the best aspects of critique: the intellectual and political stance that the contributors take to be feminism's ethos and its aim.

Contributors
Wendy Brown
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Evelynn M. Hammonds
Saba Mahmood
Biddy Martin
Afsaneh Najmabadi
Ellen Rooney
Gayle Salamon
Joan Wallach Scott
Robyn Wiegman

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Citations

  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 07/11/2008, Page 17

About the author

Joan Wallach Scott is the Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her many books include The Politics of the Veil, Gender and the Politics of History, and Feminists Theorize the Political (co-edited with Judith Butler).

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