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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959207803321

Titolo

Women's studies on the edge / / edited by Joan Wallach Scott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008

ISBN

9780822389101

082238910X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

a differences book

Classificazione

MS 3150

Altri autori (Persone)

ScottJoan Wallach

Disciplina

305.4

Soggetti

Women's studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A differences book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The impossibility of women's studies / Wendy Brown -- Feminism, institutionalism, and the idiom of failure / Robyn Wiegman -- Teaching and research in unavailable intersections / Afsaneh Najmabadi -- Feminism, democracy, and empire : Islam and the War on Terror / Saba Mahmood -- Transfeminism and the future of gender / Gayle Salamon -- Discipline and vanish : feminism, the resistance to theory, and the politics of cultural studies / Ellen Rooney -- Sheftall with Evelynn M. Hammonds, whither black women's studies : interview / Beverly Guy -- Success and its failures / Biddy Martin.

Sommario/riassunto

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