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Köp båda 2 för 558 krWith its combination of landmark and new contributions, Women's Studies on the Edge will be a valuable addition to the library of any feminist scholar. - Elizabeth Groeneveld, Third Space This collection of eight essays, edited by Joan Wallach Scott, discusses the impact of institutional success on womens studies programs in the United States. . . . All the essays, each thoughtful in their own right, represent ideas that have unevenly infused academia but that continue to be salient. - Susie S. Porter, Affilia Womens Studies on the Edge . . . opens possibilities for a vibrant, transformed future for womens studies. - Barbara Scott Winkler, Feminist Formations An important acquisition for institutions that have (or are in the process of setting up) programs in womens studies, gender studies, or cultural studies. Essential. - N. B. Rosenthal, Choice Womens Studies on the Edge . . . opens possibilities for a vibrant, transformed future for womens studies. -- Barbara Scott Winkler * Feminist Formations * An important acquisition for institutions that have (or are in the process of setting up) programs in womens studies, gender studies, or cultural studies. Essential. -- N. B. Rosenthal * Choice *
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).
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