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Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies de Catherine M. Orr

Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies

Editat de Catherine M. Orr, Ann Braithwaite
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 dec 2011
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415808309
ISBN-10: 0415808308
Pagini: 392
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.89 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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

Notă biografică

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).

Recenzii

"As a collective meditation on Women and Gender Studies, Rethinking is more than an interrogation of the reigning assumptions of the field; it is a keen example of the critical art of intellectual risk. By confronting the limits of the field's foundational investments, this book—ambitious in scope, exacting in critical detail, and passionate in political commitment—insists that what is most vital about the field comes from the imperative to think again."—Robyn Wiegman, Women's Studies and Literature, Duke University
"The book’s focus on key words in women’s and gender studies admirably maps past debates, interrogates unexamined assumptions, and pushes the boundaries of the field into new areas such as religion. An absorbing read for WGS faculty and excellent for intermediate/advanced courses in WGS."—Susan Stanford Friedman, Women’s Studies and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"By providing a series of provocative and thoughtful insights into foundational assumptions, intellectual dilemmas, and analytical challenges, Rethinking makes a valuable contribution to dialogues and debates emerging in the academic field of WGS. It offers a thought-provoking discussion of the discipline and will engage both scholars and advanced undergraduate and graduate students."—Sikata Banerjee, Women’s Studies, University of Victoria

"This thoughtful new book takes up and interrogates anew a range of terms that have been central to Women’s and Gender Studies, which the authors argue have sometimes been adopted without adequate reflection on their meaning. Contributing authors offer focused meditations on particular concepts—from "foundational assumptions" like "feminism" to more recently contested concepts like "transnational"—with the editors including provocative questions throughout the volume to open up conversation about the possibilities these terms evoke or foreclose. The result is a critical addition to the bookshelf of anyone seriously considering the current state and future course of Women’s and Gender Studies....Blending history, reflection, and analysis, the volume invites and even impels readers to engage with the vocabulary of Women’s and Gender Studies in new and refreshing ways—an activity sure to be of great value to new students and seasoned practitioners alike." - On Campus with Women
"In Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies, Orr, Braithwaite, and Lichtenstein have overseen the publication of a stylish, informative volume, characterized by a wonderfully simple structure. […] The result is a fresh and lively work that never feels overly didactic or prescriptive. So much thought has gone into making this an accessible and readable text that even the table of contents is a delight." - Emma L. E. Rees, University of Chester, UK, in Women’s Studies Quarterly
"The anthology [...] offers an up-to-date examination of the central concepts of self-/attribution in Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) in the context of the current restructuring of universities – such as, methods, pedagogy, community, discipline, and institutionalization." - Jennifer Bühner, querelles-net
"Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies takes the reader beyond an introduction to the major issues--and even beyond the dirty laundry--in the field. [...] [T]he collection serves as a way to navigate through the eclectiv web of scholarship, activism(s), tensions, and debates that collectively we know as women's and gender studies. [...] [T]his kind of tension is necessary for a thought-provoking conversation. I highly recommend Rethinking Women and Gender Studies as a companion to theoretical texts and as a guide that will continue to shape the future of the field." -Glenda Jones, University of Wisconsin-- Stout, Feminist Collections, 2014

Descriere

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.