Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies provides opportunities to "think otherwise" about and within Women's and Gender Studies by exploring how its key terms operate as the common sense of the field, theorizing how those terms limit the field's possibilities, and arguing that they must instead be understood as always situated or "interested" if the field is to achieve its goals of inclusive and transgressive thinking.
Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies provides opportunities to "think otherwise" about and within Women's and Gender Studies by exploring how its key terms operate as the common sense of the field, theorizing how those terms limit the field's possibilities, and arguing that they must instead be understood as always situated or "interested" if the field is to achieve its goals of inclusive and transgressive thinking.
CATHERINE M. ORR is Professor and Chair of Women's and Gender Studies at Beloit College. Her work has been published in Women's Studies Quarterly, Hypatia, NWSA Journal, and Feminist Collections. She served as National Conference Chair for the National Women's Studies Association (2006-08). ANN BRAITHWAITE is Associate Professor and Director of Women's Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island. She is co-author of Troubling Women's Studies (2004), co-editor of Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal, and former President of the Canadian Women's Studies Association. DIANE LICHTENSTEIN is Professor of English and former Chair of Women's Studies as well as of Interdisciplinary Studies at Beloit College. She co-edited: a special issue of Women's Studies Quarterly (1999) focused on feminist activism and Women's Studies; and a cluster of essays on "locations" in the NWSA Journal (2005).
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Preface Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: Why Rethink: Critical Genealogies in the Discipline Part 1: Foundational Assumptions Section Introduction 1. Feminism Layli Maparyan 2. Interdisciplinarity Diane Lichtenstein 3. Methods Katherine Side 4. Pedagogy Susanne Luhmann 5. Points to Ponder Part 2: Ubiquitous Descriptions Section Introduction 6. Activism Catherine M. Orr 6. Waves Astrid Henry 7. Besiegement Alison Piepmeier 8. Community Martha McCaughey Points to Ponder Part 3: Epistemologies Rethought Section Introduction 9. Intersectionality Vivian May 10. Identity (Politics) Scott Morgensen 11. Queer Jennifer Purvis Points to Ponder Part 4: Silences and Disavowals Section Introduction 12. Discipline Ann Braithwaite 13.History Wendy Kolmar 14. Secularity Karlyn Crowley 15. Sexuality Merri Lisa Johnson Points to Ponder Part 5: Establishment Challenges Section Introduction 15. Trans Bobby Noble 16. Institutionalization Aimee Carrillo-Rowe 17. Transnational Laura Parisi Points to Ponder CONCLUSION: Continuing the Conversation Web Resources Reference List About the Contributors Index
Preface Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: Why Rethink: Critical Genealogies in the Discipline Part 1: Foundational Assumptions Section Introduction 1. Feminism Layli Maparyan 2. Interdisciplinarity Diane Lichtenstein 3. Methods Katherine Side 4. Pedagogy Susanne Luhmann 5. Points to Ponder Part 2: Ubiquitous Descriptions Section Introduction 6. Activism Catherine M. Orr 6. Waves Astrid Henry 7. Besiegement Alison Piepmeier 8. Community Martha McCaughey Points to Ponder Part 3: Epistemologies Rethought Section Introduction 9. Intersectionality Vivian May 10. Identity (Politics) Scott Morgensen 11. Queer Jennifer Purvis Points to Ponder Part 4: Silences and Disavowals Section Introduction 12. Discipline Ann Braithwaite 13.History Wendy Kolmar 14. Secularity Karlyn Crowley 15. Sexuality Merri Lisa Johnson Points to Ponder Part 5: Establishment Challenges Section Introduction 15. Trans Bobby Noble 16. Institutionalization Aimee Carrillo-Rowe 17. Transnational Laura Parisi Points to Ponder CONCLUSION: Continuing the Conversation Web Resources Reference List About the Contributors Index
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