Subtitle: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics
Author: Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Agatha Beins
Subject: Womens Studies
Paper ISBN 0-8135-3619-7
Cloth ISBN 0-8135-3618-9
Pages: 368 pp.
Description:
Praise for Women's Studies for the Future
"This valuable collection contributes an important discussion of contemporary epistemological and political debates within women's studies. It provides insight on the institutional 'next steps' that will advance the field 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 and compelling new directions for action, 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 and is pursuing MFA at Eastern Washington University.
CONTRIBUTORS:
- Julia Balén
- Agatha Beins
- Nan Alamilla Boyd
- Laura Briggs
- Monica Brown
- Miroslava Chávez-García
- Barbara Crow
- Mary Jo Tippeconnic Fox
- Esther Fuchs
- Lise Gotell
- Beverly Guy-Sheftall
- Evelynn M. Hammonds
- Janet R. Jakobsen
- Miranda Joseph
- Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
- Inez Martinez
- Vivian M. May
- Kari Boyd McBride
- Chandra Talpade Mohanty
- Sheilah E. Nicholas
- Lorenia Parada-Ampudia
- Priti Ramamurthy
- David Rubin
- Sandra Soto
- Banu Subramaniam
- Alys Eve Weinbaum
- Robyn Wiegman
- Bonnie Zimmerman
