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Women's Studies on the Edge (Paperback)
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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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