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Transforming the Disciplines - A Women's Studies Primer (Paperback)
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Transforming the Disciplines - A Women's Studies Primer (Paperback)
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A jargon-free, non-technical, and easily accessible introduction to
women's studies!All too many students enter academia with the hazy
idea that the field of women's studies is restricted to housework,
birth control, and Susan B. Anthony. Their first encounter with a
women's studies textbook is likely to focus on the history and
sociology of women's lives. While these topics are important, the
emphasis on them has led to neglect of equally important issues.
Transforming the Disciplines: A Women's Studies Primer is one of
the first women's studies textbooks to show feminist scholarship as
an active force, changing the way we study such diverse fields as
architecture, bioethics, history, mathematics, religion, and sports
studies.Although this text was designed as an introduction to
women's studies, it is also rewarding for upper-level or graduate
students who want to understand the pervasive effects of feminist
theory. Most chapters provide a bibliography or list of further
reading of significant works. Its clear, jargon-free prose makes
feminist thought accessible to general readers without sacrificing
the revolutionary power of its ideas. In almost thirty essays,
covering a broad range of subjects from anthropology to chemistry
to rhetoric, Transforming the Disciplines exemplifies the changes
achieved by feminist thought. Transforming the Disciplines:
combines a high standard of writing and scholarship with personal
insight includes both traditional academic arguments and
alternative, non-agonistic forms of discussion embraces an
international scope challenges traditional assumptions, models, and
methodologies offers an inter- and multidisciplinary approach
strengthens readers'understanding of the big picture not only for
women but for all disempowered groups critiques feminism as well as
patriarchal society Feminist theory is grounded in a questioning of
traditional assumptions about what is right, natural, and
self-evident, not just about the roles and nature of men and women
but about how we think, what we teach, whose experience matters,
and what is important. Transforming the Disciplines is the first
textbook to show the consequences of those questions -- not the
answers themselves, but the consequences of the willingness to ask
and the transformations that have occurred when the "right" answers
changed.
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