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Women's Studies on the Edge by Joan Wallach Scott (editor); Wendy Brown (editor); Robyn Wiegman (editor); Gayle Salamon (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 often regarded as an outmoded political position by many of 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 wit

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Author

Joan Wallach Scott (editor); Wendy Brown (editor); Robyn Wiegman (editor); Gayle Salamon (editor)

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822342526

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Sociology, Gender Studies