"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.
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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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