A Journey Into Women's Studies

Crossing Interdisciplinary Boundaries
Herausgegeben:Pande, R.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The present book is a journey of many women across the world who have struggled to give women's studies visibility. Drawing upon the contributors' diverse experiences and concerns, it explores the metamorphosis of women's studies from the early days to date.

Produktdetails

• Gender, Development and Social Change
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-39573-3
• 2014
• Seitenzahl: 343
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9781137395733
• ISBN-10: 1137395737
• Artikelnr.: 40555105

Autorenporträt

Cynthia Enloe, Clark University in Worcester, USA Maithreyi Krishnaraj, SNDT University, India Nawar Al-Hassan Golley, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Uma Chakravarti, (Retd.) Delhi University, India Drude Dahlerup, University of Stockholm, Sweden Anita Nyberg, Stockholm University, Sweden Thai thi Ngoc Du, Hoa Sen University, Vietnam Paul S. Ropp, Clark University, USA Ronni Alexander, Kobe University, Japan Clara Wing-chung Ho, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Marilyn Porter, Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada Caroline Andrew, University of Ottawa, Canada Tahera Aftab, (Retd.) University of Karachi, Pakistan Insook, Myongji University, South Korea Hülya Adak, Sabanc? University, Turkey Simona Sharoni, SUNY Plattsburgh, USA Mona Eliasson , Gavle University, Sweden Geraldine Forbes, State University of New York Oswego, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I: CROSSING INTERDISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES 1. From the Ground Up; Cynthia Enloe 2. My Women's Studies Journey; Maithreyi Krishnaraj 3. Reclaiming my Education: A Passage to Consciousness; Nawar Al-Hassan Golley 4. Oppositional Imaginations: Multiple Lineages of feminist Scholarship; Uma Chakravarti 5. From Feminist Activist to Professor; Drude Dahlerup 6. My Tryst with Women's Studies; Rekha Pande PART II: ARTICULATING REGIONAL EXPERIENCES 7. Being a Woman and doing Gender in Sweden; Anita Nyberg 8. Mainstreaming Women's Studies in Higher Education - The Case of Vietnam; Thai thi Ngoc Du 9. My Journey in Chinese Women's Studies; Paul S. Ropp 10. Feminism and Women's Studies in Japan; Ronni Alexander 11. Working on the History of Chinese Women: My Story; Clara Wing-chung Ho 12. Feminism, Women's Studies and the Women's Movement in Canada: Two Canadian Perspectives; Marilyn Porter and Caroline Andrew PART III: TRANSNATIONAL AND DIASPORIC EXPERIENCES 13. Learning from Women for Women; Tahera Aftab 14. My Life before and after Women's Studies- Insook; Myongji University 15. A Personal Odyssey toward 'Feminist Curiosity';Hülya Adak 16. The Personal is (still) Political: Feminist Reflections on a Transformative Journey; Simona Sharoni 17. State Feminism, Feminists and Women's Studies in Sweden; Mona Eliasson 18. My Life and Women's Studies; Geraldine Forbes