Description
Since the 1970s, Women's Studies has grown from a volunteerist political project to a full-scale academic enterprise. Women's Studies on Its Own assesses the present and future of the field, demonstrating how institutionalization has extended a vital, ongoing intellectual project for a new generation of scholars and students.
Women's Studies on Its Own considers the history, pedagogy, and curricula of Women's Studies programs, as well as the field's relation to the managed university. Both theoretically and institutionally grounded, the essays examine the pedagogical implications of various divisions of knowledge-racial, sexual, disciplinary, geopolitical, and economic. They look at the institutional practices that challenge and enable Women's Studies-including interdisciplinarity, governance, administration, faculty review, professionalism, corporatism, fiscal autonomy, and fiscal constraint. Whether thinking about issues of academic labor, the impact of postcolonialism on Women's Studies curricula, or the relation between education and the state, the contributors bring insight and wit to their theoretical deliberations on the shape of a transforming field.
Contributors. Dale M. Bauer, Kathleen M. Blee, Gloria Bowles, Denise Cuthbert, Maryanne Dever, Anne Donadey, Laura Donaldson, Diane Elam, Susan Stanford Friedman, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Inderpal Grewal, Sneja Gunew, Miranda Joseph, Caren Kaplan, Rachel Lee, Devoney Looser, Jeanette McVicker, Minoo Moallem, Nancy A. Naples, Jane O. Newman, Lindsey Pollak, Jean C. Robinson, Sabina Sawhney, Jael Silliman, Sivagami Subbaraman, Robyn Warhol, Marcia Westkott, Robyn Wiegman, Bonnie Zimmerman
The future of a retheorized women's studies in an increasingly institutionalized context.
About the Author
Robyn Wiegman is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and the Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies at Duke University. She is the author of American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender and coeditor of The Futures of American Studies, both published by Duke University Press.
Reviews
"Women's Studies on Its Own charts the course academic feminism has taken in the thirty years since the founding of the first Women's Studies program. Even better, it offers a game plan for the next thirty years. It's indispensable."-Cathy N. Davidson, coeditor of No More Separate Spheres! A Next Wave American Studies Reader
"As we enter something of a 'post-identity politics' era, one in which colleges and universities are increasingly held accountable for the kinds of knowledge they produce (and how and for whom), Women's Studies on Its Own offers both a rationale for and a critical analysis of the state of the field."-Jill Dolan, author of Geographies of Learning: Theory and Practice, Activism and Performance
"From the wealth of material and argument in the book, it is possible to construct a model women's studies program. . . . Women's Studies on Its Own offers much to 'change life.'. . ."
-- David L. Sterling * History: Reviews of New Books *
Book Information
ISBN 9780822329862
Author Robyn Wiegman
Format Paperback
Page Count 512
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 708g
