Women's Studies on the Edge

Herausgeber: Scott, Joan Wallach

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Produktbeschreibung

Essays on the future of women's studies as an academic discipline.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 159mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342748
• ISBN-10: 082234274X
• Artikelnr.: 23388907

Autorenporträt

Joan Wallach Scott is the Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her many books include The Politics of the Veil, Gender and the Politics of History, and Feminists Theorize the Political (co-edited with Judith Butler).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Feminism's Critical Edge / Joan Wallach Scott 1
I. Over the Edge
The Impossibility of Women's Studies / Wendy Brown 17
Feminism, Institutionalism, and the Idiom of Failure / Robyn Wiegman 39
II. Edged Out
Teaching and Research in Unavailable Intersections / Afsaneh Najmabadi 69
Feminism, Democracy, and Empire: Islam and the War of Terror / Saba Mahmood
81
Transfeminism and the Future of Gender / Gayle Salamon 115
III. Edging In
Discipline and Vanish: Feminism, the Resistance to Theory, and the Politics
of Cultural Studies / Ellen Rooney 139
Whither Black Women's Studies: Interview / Beverly Guy-Sheftall with
Evelynn M. Hammonds 155
Success and Its Failures / Biddy Martin 169
Works Cited 199
Contributors 211
Index 215