Women's studies for the future : foundations, interrogations, politics /

Women's studies for the future : foundations, interrogations, politics / edited by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Agatha Beins. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2005. - xiv, 347 s. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is the Subject of Women's Studies? -- Beyond Dualisms: Some Thoughts about the Future of Women's Studies / Bonnie Zimmerman -- The Possibility of Women's Studies / Robyn Wiegman-- Whither Black Women's Studies: An Interview, 1997 & 2004 / Beverly-Guy Sheftall and Evelynn M. Hammonds-- "Under Western Eyes" Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anti-Capitalist Struggles / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- What Does Queer Studies Offer Women's Studies? -- The Problem and Promise of Instability / Nan Alamilla Boyd -- How Does Women's Studies Negotiate the Politics of Alliance and the Politics of Difference? -- Where in the Transnational World are U.S. Women of Color? / Sandra Soto -- Different Differences: Theory and the Practice of Women's Studies / Janet R. Jakobsen -- Women's Studies and Chicana Studies: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future / Monica Brown and Miroslava Ch vez-García -- Feminism, Anti-Semitism, Politics: Does Jewish Women's Studies Have a Future? / Esther Fuchs -- Beyond Pocahontas, Princess, and Squaw: Investigating Traditional "Feminism" / Mary Jo Tippeconnic Fox and Sheilah E. Nicholas -- How Can Women's Studies Fulfill the Promise of Interdisciplinarity? -- Disciplining Feminist Futures? "Undisciplined" Reflections about the Women's Studies Ph. D. / Vivian M. May -- Towards a New Feminist Internationalism / Miranda Joseph, Priti Ramamurthy, and Alys Eve Weinbaum -- Laboratories of Our Own: New Productions of Gender and Science Banu Subramaniam -- What is the Continuing Place of Activism in Women's Studies? -- Women's Studies, Neoliberalism, and the Paradox of the "Political" / David Rubin --. The Institutionalization of Women's and Gender Studies in Mexico: Achievements and Challenges / Lorenia Parada-Ampudia -- Practicing What We Teach Julia Balén -- How Has Feminist Pedagogy Responded to Changing Social Conditions?

This volume addresses questions on the subject of women's studies. Offering innovative models for research and teaching and compelling new directions for action, 'Women's Studies for the Future' ensures the continued relevance and influence of this developing field

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Women's studies.
Women's studies--United States.
Primera Jornada de Catalogación.
Estudios de la mujer.

HQ 1180 / W6765 2005