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Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies

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ISBN-10: 0415808316

ISBN-13: 9780415808316

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ann Braithwaite, Catherine M. Orr, Diane Lichtenstein

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Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studiesre-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…    
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Book details

List price: $46.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 1/31/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.25" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English

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…    

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Why Rethink: Critical Genealogies in the Discipline
Foundational Assumptions
Section Introduction
Feminism
Interdisciplinarity
Methods
Pedagogy
Points to Ponder
Ubiquitous Descriptions
Section Introduction
Activism
Waves
Besiegement
Community
Points to Ponder
Epistemologies Rethought
Section Introduction
Intersectionality
Identity (Politics)
Queer
Points to Ponder
Silences and Disavowals
Section Introduction
Discipline
History
Secularity
Sexuality
Points to Ponder
Establishment Challenges
Section Introduction
Trans
Institutionalization
Transnational
Points to Ponder
Conclusion: Continuing the Conversation
Web Resources
Reference List
About the Contributors
Index