Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 502 pages
- Published by: Duke University Press September 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0822329867
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0822329862
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
- Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Product Review
"From the wealth of material and argument in the book, it is possible to construct a model women’s studies program. . . .
Women’s Studies on Its Own offers much to ‘change life.’. . ."
--David L. Sterling,
History: Review of New Books"[T]his volume provides a rich body of knowledge about the current state of women's studies that increases our understanding of its institutionalization, and simultaneously serves as a source of constructive ideas for how the field can overcome its problems and continue as an academic site of radical politics. I recommend Women's Studies on Its Own not only to all the people involved in women's studies, but to anyone interested in important current issues in higher education."
--Jill M. Bystydzienski,
Contemporary Sociology"[T]his anthology . . . sets a standard for assessing the state of women's studies that is genuinely innovative and desperately needed.
Women's Studies on Its Own lays out an important intellectual foundation upon which others already have begun to build."
--Catherine M. Orr,
Feminist Collections
Book 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.
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
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