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With reference to India; focus on Research Centre for Women's Studies, Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University and Women's Study Unit, Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

• Editors
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• PART I INTRODUCTION
• 1 Feminist Studies as a Site of Critical Knowledge Production and Praxis
• Nancy A. Naples
• PART II FEMINIST EPISTEMOLOGIES AND ITS DISCONTENTS
• 2 Biological Determinism and Essentialism
• Sheila Greene
• 3 Marxist and Socialist Feminisms
• Elisabeth Armstrong
• 4 Radical and Cultural Feminisms
• Lauren Rosewarne
• 5 Materialist Feminisms
• Bronwyn Winter
• 6 Black Feminist Thought and Womanism
• Rose Brewer
• 7 Intersectionality as Critical Inquiry
• Patricia Hill Collins
• 8 Queer, Trans, and Transfeminist Theories
• Ute Bettray
• 9 Postcolonial Feminism
• Umme Al-wazedi
• 10 Feminisms in Comparative Perspective
• Anne Sisson Runyan, Rina Williams, Anwar Mhajne and Crystal Whetstone
• 11 Transnational Feminisms
• Gul Aldikacti Marshall
• PART III METHODOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
• 12 Feminist Methodologies
• Cynthia Deitch
• 13 Feminist Empiricism
• Gina Marie Longo
• 14 Feminist Science Studies
• Samantha Archer and Anne E. Kohler
• 15 Feminist Economics
• Valeria Esquivel
• 16 Feminist Ethnography
• Dana -Ain Davis and Christa Craven
• 17 Feminist Historiography
• Ariella Rotramel
• 18 Feminism, Gender and Popular Culture
• Diane Grossman
• PART IV FEMINIST PRAXIS
• 19 Feminist Pedagogies
• Danielle Currier
• 20 Feminist Praxis and Globalization
• Manisha Desai and Koyel Khan
• 21 Feminism and Somatic Praxis
• Gill Wright Miller
• 22 Feminist Health Movements
• Meredeth Turshen and Marci Berger
• 23 Feminist Praxis and Gender Violence
• Margaret Campe and Claire Renzetti
• 24 Feminist Political Ecologies
• Astrid Ulloa
• 25 Feminism and Social Justice Movements
• Molli Spalter
• Index.
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A comprehensive overview of feminist scholarship edited by an internationally recognized and leading figure in the field Companion to Feminist Studies provides a broad overview of the rich history and the multitude of approaches, theories, concepts, and debates central to this dynamic interdisciplinary field. Comprehensive yet accessible, this edited volume offers expert insights from contributors of diverse academic, national, and activist backgrounds-discussing contemporary research and themes while offering international, postcolonial, and intersectional perspectives on social, political, cultural, and economic institutions, social media, social justice movements, everyday discourse, and more. Organized around three different dimensions of Feminist Studies, the Companion begins by exploring ten theoretical frameworks, including feminist epistemologies examining Marxist and Socialist Feminism, the activism of radical feminists, the contributions of Black feminist thought, and interrelated approaches to the fluidity of gender and sexuality. The second section focuses on methodologies and analytical frameworks developed by feminist scholars, including empiricists, economists, ethnographers, cultural analysts, and historiographers. The volume concludes with detailed discussion of the many ways in which pedagogy, political ecology, social justice, globalization, and other areas within Feminist Studies are shaped by feminism in practice. A major contribution to scholarship on both the theoretical foundations and contemporary debates in the field, this volume: Provides an international and interdisciplinary range of the essays of high relevance to scholars, students, and practitioners alike Examines various historical and modern approaches to the analysis of gender and sexual differences Addresses timely issues such as the difference between radical and cultural feminism, the lack of women working as scientists in academia and other research positions, and how activism continues to reformulate feminist approaches Draws insight from the positionality of postcolonial, comparative and transnational feminists Explores how gender, class, and race intersect to shape women's experiences and inform their perspectives Companion to Feminist Studies is an essential resource for students and faculty in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Feminist Studies programs, and related disciplines including anthropology, psychology, history, political science, and sociology, and for researchers, scholars, practitioners, policymakers, activists, and advocates working on issues related to gender, sexuality, and social justice.
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• 1. The Invention of Women's Studies
• 2. The Foundations of Interdisciplinarity
• 3. Intersectionality and Difference: Race, Class, and Gender
• 4. Global Agendas
• 5. Violence, Militarization, Security, and Peace
• 6. Women's Studies and the Question of Gender
• 7. Feminist Theories and Methods
• 8. Embodiment, Sexuality, Identity
• 9. Classrooms, Controversies, and Citizenship
• 10. The Future of Women's Studies in Our Information Age.
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Women's Studies: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the pathbreaking and cross-disciplinary study of women-past and present. Tracing the history of the field from its origins, this revised and updated text sets out the main topics making up the discipline, exploring its global development and its relevance to our own times. A new chapter on militarization and violence provides fresh insight into trends in the contemporary world and adds to curricular significance. Reflecting the diversity of the field, core themes include: The interdisciplinary nature of women's studies Core feminist theories and the feminist agenda Issues of intersectionality: women, race, class, gender, ethnicity, and religion Violence, militarization, security, and peace Women, sexuality, and the body Women's Studies: The Basics provides an informed foundation for those new to the subject and is especially meant to guide undergraduates and postgraduates concentrating in women's studies and gender studies. Those in related disciplines will find in it a valuable overview of and background to women-centered issues and concerns, including global ones. The work also provides an updated list of suggested reading to help in further study, classroom presentations, and written exercises.
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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.
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Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies re-examines the field's foundational assumptions by identifying and critically analyzing eighteen of its key terms. Each essay investigates a single term (e.g., feminism, interdisciplinarity, intersectionality) by asking how it has come to be understood and mobilized in Women's and Gender Studies and then explicates the roles it plays in both producing and shutting down possible versions of the field. The goal of the book is to trace and expose critical paradoxes, ironies, and contradictions embedded in the language of Women's and Gender Studies-from its high theory to its casual conversations-that relies on these key terms. Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies offers a fresh approach to structuring Feminist Theory, Senior Capstone, and introductory graduate-level courses in Women's and Gender Studies.
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• Introduction: Feminism's Critical Edge / Joan Wallach ScottI. Over the EdgeThe Impossibility of Women's Studies / Wendy Brown
• Feminism, Institutionalism, and the Idiom of Failure / Robyn WiegmanII. Edged OutTeaching and Research in Unavailable Intersections / Afsaneh Najmabadi
• Feminism, Democracy, and Empire: Islam and the War on Terror / Saba Mahmood
• Transfeminism and the Future of Gender / Gayle SalamonIII. Edging InDiscipline and Vanish: Feminism, the Resistance to Theory, and the Politics of Cultural Studies / Ellen Rooney
• Whither Black Women's Studies: Interview / Beverly Guy-Sheftall with Evelynn Hammonds
• Success and Its Failures / Biddy Martin.
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At many universities, women's studies programs have achieved department status, establishing tenure-track appointments, graduate programs, and consistent course enrollments. Yet, as Joan Wallach Scott notes in her introduction to this collection, in the wake of its institutional successes, women's studies has begun to lose its critical purchase. Feminism, the driving political force behind women's studies, is commonly regarded as a vestigial or irrelevant political position to today's students, and activism is no longer central to women's studies programs on many campuses.In "Women's Studies on the Edge", leading feminist scholars tackle the critical, political, and institutional challenges that women's studies has faced since its widespread integration into university curricula. The contributors to "Women's Studies on the Edge" embrace feminism not as a set of prescriptions, but as a critical stance, one that seeks to interrogate and disrupt prevailing systems of gender. Refusing to perpetuate and protect orthodoxies, they ask tough questions about the impact of institutionalization on the once radical field of women's studies; about the ongoing difficulties of articulating women's studies with ethnic, queer, and race studies; and about the limits of liberal concepts of emancipation for understanding non-Western women.They also question the viability of continuing to ground women's studies in identity politics authorized by personal experience. In "Women's Studies on the Edge" there are conflicting interpretations that sometimes overlap and sometimes stand in opposition to one another. The result is a collection that embodies the best aspects of critique: the intellectual and political stance that the contributors take to be feminism's ethos and its aim.
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The four essays in this collection present a multifaceted conversation about what is at stake in 'passing on' the institutionalised project of Women's Studies at this historic moment. The authors come to this conversation from a diversity of histories, commitments and investments in Women's Studies. Framed by the argument that Women's Studies is a project fraught with uncertainty, the authors explore what it means to live within this uncertainty and how one might respond to it intellectually, emotionally, politically, institutionally and pedagogically. In exploring their own responses and taking into consideration responses from other feminist intellectuals, the authors subject their practices to the same kind of academic critique to which they subject the discipline, its location, theories, methods and pedagogues. The purpose of these essays is not to enact these responses nor to fix a firm direction for the future of the discipline; but rather, by looking back and attending to the now, inspire us to grapple with what might be possible.
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• Part 1 On the move - new agendas for women's studies: challenging the boundaries - towards an anti-racist women's studies, Mary Maynard
• anti- colonial subjects? post-colonial subjects? nationalisms, ethnocentrisms and feminist scholarship, Joanna de Groot
• what happened to feminist politics in "gender training"?, Bunie M. Matlanyane Sexwale
• the political and the personal - women's writing in China in the 1980s, Delia Davin
• reassessing representations of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, militant feminists in Edwardian Britain - on the importance of a knowledge of our feminist past, June Purvis
• gender, nation and scholarship - reflections on gender/women's studies in the Czech Republic, Jitka Maleckova
• possibilities for women's studies in post- communist countries - where are we going? Svetlana Kupryashkina. Part 2 Women in movement - identity, migration and nationalism: resituating discourses of "whiteness" and "Asianess" in Northern England - second generation Sikh women and constructions of identity, Jasbir K. PUar
• women who move - experiences of diaspora, Magdalene Ang-Lygate
• Ireland - the home of our mothers and our birthright for ages? Irish migrant women's identifications with nation and/or diaspora, Breda Gray
• boundary politics - women, nationalism and danger, Jan Jindy Pettman
• gender, colonialism and nationalism - women activists in Uttar Pradesh, India, Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert
• East German women five years after the "wende", Hanna Behrend.
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Based on the 1994 Women's Studies Network conference, this text reveals the diversities which continue to shape women's beliefs and experiences. It includes debates on women and nationalisms, women and social policy, sexuality, black studies and ethnic studies, women and education, women and cultural production and women's studies and gender studies. The volume includes chapters by Diana Leonard, Bunie Matlanyane-Sexwale and bel hooks.
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This volume assesses the state of women's studies in the 1990s, with the contributors addressing more general issues of women's lives and circumstances, aiming to give a broad picture of women's studies and feminist scholarship.
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Talking Gender assesses the state of women's studies in the 1990s. The contributors write from the perspective of their own academic disciplines and experiences, but they also address more general issues of women's lives and circumstances. The result is a broad picture of women's studies and feminist scholarship, which emerge as a rich, if sometimes dissonant, chorus of voices. These original essays cover a range of topics and a variety of times and places: images of women inherited from Roman oratory, visual images from cultures of trauma; verbal imagery in today's pornography debates; political and social identities in the state of Israel; boundaries between private and public lives of African American women leaders; voices and audiences of African American women writers; stereotypes of HIV-positive women; what women's studies can teach men about themselves; and the place of women in global industry. The introduction and conclusion place the collection within the context of historical debates in women's studies and suggest some new directions for the field. The contributors: Cynthia Enloe (Clark University) Sara M. Evans (University of Minnesota) Kathy E. Ferguson (University of Hawai'i at Manoa) Karla F. C. Holloway (Duke University) Michael S. Kimmel (SUNY-Stony Brook) Mandy Merck (London) Barbara Ogur (Cambridge Neighborhood Health Centers) Amy Richlin (University of Southern California) Kristine Stiles (Duke University) Deborah Gray White (Rutgers University).Originally published in 1996.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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• Weibliche Emanzipation : zu Dacia Marainis Roman "Die stumme Herzogin" / Prof. Dr. Rösler
• Das Ende einer Konfusion : Frauenbildung, ein Prozess des Zerbröckelns falscher Bilder / Elisabeth de Sotelo
• Die Entwicklung des Modellprojekts "Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung für Frauen" an der Universität Koblenz-Landau, Abt. Koblenz / Walburga Hoff
• Frauenstudien zwischen Euphorie und kritischer Reflexion / Wiltrud Gieseke
• Von einer, die auszog / Koblenzer Frauenstudien aus der Sicht von Teilnehmerinnen
• Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung für Frauen als Aufgabe der Universität und Erwachsenenbildungsinstitutionen am Beispiel der Frauenakademie Ulm / Carmen Stadelhofer
• Fernstudium für Mitarbeiter in der Erwachsenenbildung / Ellen Hoffmann
• Frauenstudien als Qualifikation für emanzipatorische Frauenarbeit / Irmhild Kettschau
• Podiumsdiskussion : "Curriculare Aspekte der Frauenstudien"
• Arbeitsgruppen.

• International women's studies courses and research centres
• training
• research resources
• publications - journals, magazines, dictionaries, handbooks.
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This handbook provides a reference guide to women's organizations and to women's studies courses, centres, training and resources worldwide. Alphabetically arranged and covering more than 60 countries, the book gives instant access to work and study opportunities internationally - including libraries, women's resource centres, bookshops and book clubs. It also aims to facilitate networking between academics and activists and to raise awareness of the wide range of organizations concerned with women's issues.
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