Reconsidering Knowledge

Dr. Luxton is a Professor in the School of Social Sciences and the Women’s Studies Programme at Atkinson College, York University. She is Director of the Graduate Programme in Women’s Studies and has published widely, with several highly acclaimed books and articles on the women’s movement, women’s work, paid and unpaid, and relations among work, family and class.MARY JANE MOSSMAN is a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, and was director of Osgoode’s Institute for Feminist Legal Studies from 2002 to 2010.

• : Contributor Biographies: Introduction (Mary Jane Mossman and Meg Luxton): Part One: Feminism and the Academy: Revealing the “Other”: Feminism and the Academy: Transforming Knowledge? (Meg Luxton): Cartographies of Knowledge and Power: Transnational Feminism as Radical Praxis (M. Jacqui Alexander & Chandra Talpade Mohanty): Sexual Diversity in Cosmopolitan Perspective (Elisabeth Young-Bruehl): Part Two: Feminism and the Academy: (Re)Engaging the “Knowledge Revolution”: Universities Upside Down: The Impact of the New Knowledge Economy (Margaret Thornton): The University on-the-Ground: Reflections on the Canadian Experience (Janice Newson): Part Three: Feminism and the Academy: Remembering History/ Recalling Resistance: Bluestockings and Goddesses: Writing Feminist Cultural History (Ann Shteir): Feminism, Ecological Thinking and the Legacy of Rachel Carson (Lorraine Code): References