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"A ringing endorsement of the necessity of feminism to women's
studies and of women's studies to the contemporary university,
Women's Studies for the Future advances the field past the impasse
between activism and poststructuralist theory and past paralyzing
doubts about the viability of the category of women."-Judith Kegan
Gardiner, editor of Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory: New
Directions "This collection provides insight on the institutional
'next steps' that will advance the field of women's studies and
answers many of the academy's questions regarding the role and
scope of our mandate."-Susan Van Dyne, professor and chair of the
women's studies program, Smith College Established as an academic
field in the 1970s, women's studies is a relatively young but
rapidly growing area of study. Not only has the number of scholars
working in this subject expanded exponentially, but women's studies
has become institutionalized, offering graduate degrees and taking
on departmental status in many colleges and universities. At the
same time, this field-formed in the wake of the feminist
movement-is finding itself in a precarious position in what is now
often called a "post-feminist" society. This raises challenging
issues for faculty, students, and administrators. How must the
field adjust its goals and methods to continue to affect change in
the future? Bringing together essays by newcomers as well as
veterans to the field, this essential volume addresses timely
questions including: .Without a unitary understanding of the
subject-woman-what is the focus of women's studies? . How can
women's studies fulfill the promise of interdisciplinarity? .What
is the continuing place of activism in women's studies? .What are
the best ways to think about, teach, and act upon the intersections
of race, class, gender, disability, nation, and sexuality? Offering
innovative models for research and teaching, Women's Studies for
the Future ensures the continued relevance and influence of this
developing field. Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy is a professor in the
women's studies department at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
Agatha Beins has an M.A. in women's studies from the University of
Arizona and an MFA from Eastern Washington University.
This is the first analysis of periodicals' key role in U.S.
feminism's formation as a collective identity and set of political
practices in the 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, more than five
hundred different feminist newsletters and newspapers were
published in the United States. Agatha Beins shows that the
repetition of certain ideas in these periodicals-ideas about
gender, race, solidarity, and politics-solidified their centrality
to feminism. Beins focuses on five periodicals of that era,
comprising almost three hundred different issues: Distaff (New
Orleans, Louisiana); Valley Women's Center Newsletter (Northampton,
Massachusetts); Female Liberation Newsletter (Cambridge,
Massachusetts); Ain't I a Woman? (Iowa City, Iowa); and L.A.
Women's Liberation Newsletter, later published as Sister (Los
Angeles, California). Together they represent a wide geographic
range, including some understudied sites of feminism. Beins
examines the discourse of sisterhood, images of women of color,
feminist publishing practices, and the production of feminist
spaces to demonstrate how repetition shaped dominant themes of
feminism's collective identity. Beins also illustrates how local
context affected the manifestation of ideas or political values,
revealing the complexity and diversity within feminism. With much
to say about the study of social movements in general, Liberation
in Print shows feminism to be a dynamic and constantly emerging
identity that has grown, in part, out of a tension between
ideological coherence and diversity. Beins's investigation of
repetition offers an innovative approach to analyzing collective
identity formation, and her book points to the significance of
print culture in activist organizing.
This is the first analysis of periodicals' key role in U.S.
feminism's formation as a collective identity and set of political
practices in the 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, more than five
hundred different feminist newsletters and newspapers were
published in the United States. Agatha Beins shows that the
repetition of certain ideas in these periodicals-ideas about
gender, race, solidarity, and politics-solidified their centrality
to feminism. Beins focuses on five periodicals of that era,
comprising almost three hundred different issues: Distaff (New
Orleans, Louisiana); Valley Women's Center Newsletter (Northampton,
Massachusetts); Female Liberation Newsletter (Cambridge,
Massachusetts); Ain't I a Woman? (Iowa City, Iowa); and L.A.
Women's Liberation Newsletter, later published as Sister (Los
Angeles, California). Together they represent a wide geographic
range, including some understudied sites of feminism. Beins
examines the discourse of sisterhood, images of women of color,
feminist publishing practices, and the production of feminist
spaces to demonstrate how repetition shaped dominant themes of
feminism's collective identity. Beins also illustrates how local
context affected the manifestation of ideas or political values,
revealing the complexity and diversity within feminism. With much
to say about the study of social movements in general, Liberation
in Print shows feminism to be a dynamic and constantly emerging
identity that has grown, in part, out of a tension between
ideological coherence and diversity. Beins's investigation of
repetition offers an innovative approach to analyzing collective
identity formation, and her book points to the significance of
print culture in activist organizing.
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Representing Rural Women (Paperback)
Whitney Womack Smith, Margaret Thomas-Evans; Contributions by Agatha Beins, Laurie JC Cella, Jim Coby, …
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Representing Rural Women highlights the complexity and diversity of
representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada from the
nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The 15 chapters in this
collection offer fresh perspectives on representations of rural
women in literature, popular culture, and print, digital, and
social media. They explore a wide range of time periods, geographic
spaces, and rural women's experiences, including Mormon pioneer
women, rural lesbians in the 1970s, Canadian rural women's
organizations, and rural trans youth. In their stories, these women
and girls navigate the complex realities of rural life, create
spaces for self-expression, develop networks to communicate their
experiences, and challenge misconceptions and stereotypes of rural
womanhood. The chapters in this collection consider the ways that
rural geography allows freedoms as well as imposes constraints on
women's lives, and explore how cultural representations of rural
womanhood both reflect and shape women's experiences.
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Representing Rural Women (Hardcover)
Margaret Thomas-Evans, Whitney Womack Smith; Contributions by Agatha Beins, Laurie JC Cella, Jim Coby, …
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R3,488
Discovery Miles 34 880
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Representing Rural Women seeks to highlight the complexity and
diversity of representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada
from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The 15 chapters in
the collection offer fresh perspectives on representations of rural
women in literature, popular culture, and print, digital, and
social media. They explore a wide range of time periods, geographic
spaces, and rural women's experiences, including Mormon pioneer
women, rural lesbians in the 1970s, Canadian rural women's
organizations, and rural trans youth. In their stories, these women
and girls navigate multiple settings and address the complex
realities of rural life, create spaces for self-expression, develop
networks to communicate their experiences, and seek to challenge
misconceptions and stereotypes of rural womanhood. The chapters in
this collection consider the ways that rural geography may allow
freedoms as well as impose constraints on women's lives, and
ultimately how cultural representations of rural womanhood both
reflect and shape women's experiences.
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