Women's Studies on Its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change

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Robyn Wiegman
Duke University Press, 13 nov. 2002 - 502 pages
"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.

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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Introduction On Location
1
HISTORIES OF THE PRESENT
45
Translating Differences Cannibal Options
47
Transnational Practices and Interdisciplinary Feminist Scholarship Refiguring Womens and Gender Studies
66
Notes from the Non Field Teaching and Theorizing Women of Color
82
The Progress of Gender Whither Women?
106
The Present and Our Past Simone de Beauvoir Descartes and Presentism in the Historiography of Feminism
141
INSTITUTIONAL PEDAGOGIES A FORUM
175
Nice Work If You Can Get Itand If You Cant? Building Womens Studies Without Tenure Lines
224
The Politics of Excellence
233
Academic Housework Womens Studies and Second Shifting
245
Different Spaces Feminist Journeys from the Academy to a Mall
258
Analogy and Complicity Womens Studies LesbianGay Studies and Capitalism
267
Institutional Success and Political Vulnerability A Lesson in the Importance of Allies
293
Life After Womens Studies Graduates and the Labor Market
312
CRITICAL CLASSROOMS
339

Contending with Disciplinarity
177
The Past in Our Present Theorizing the Activist Project of Womens Studies
183
Rethinking Collectivity Chicago Feminism Athenian Democracy and the Consumer University
191
From Politics to Professionalism Cultural Change in Womens Studies
202
BattleWeary Feminists and Supercharged Grrls Generational Differences and Outsider Status in Womens Studies Administration
211
Taking Account of Womens Studies
218
Strangers in the Classroom
341
Women of Color in the US Pedagogical Reflections on the Politics of the Name
368
What Should Every Womens Studies Major Know? Reflections on the Capstone Seminar
416
Subversive Couplings On Antiracism and Postcolonialism in Graduate Womens Studies
438
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Robyn Wiegman is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and the Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women’s Studies at Duke University. She is the author of American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender and coeditor of The Futures of American Studies, both published by Duke University Press.

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