Scott Women's Studies on the Edge

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8910-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Reihe: A differences book

Essays on the future of women's studies as an academic discipline.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scott, Joan Wallach

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brown, Wendy

Wiegman, Robyn

Salamon, Gayle

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Feminism's Critical Edge / Joan Wallach Scott 1

I. Over the Edge

The Impossibility of Women's Studies / Wendy Brown 17

Feminism, Institutionalism, and the Idiom of Failure / Robyn Wiegman 39

II. Edged Out

Teaching and Research in Unavailable Intersections / Afsaneh Najmabadi 69

Feminism, Democracy, and Empire: Islam and the War of Terror / Saba Mahmood 81

Transfeminism and the Future of Gender / Gayle Salamon 115

III. Edging In

Discipline and Vanish: Feminism, the Resistance to Theory, and the Politics of Cultural Studies / Ellen Rooney 139

Whither Black Women's Studies: Interview / Beverly Guy-Sheftall with Evelynn M. Hammonds 155

Success and Its Failures / Biddy Martin 169

Works Cited 199

Contributors 211

Index 215

Über Autor(innen)

Joan Wallach Scott is the Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her many books include The Politics of the Veil, Gender and the Politics of History, and Feminists Theorize the Political (co-edited with Judith Butler).