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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Feminism's Critical Edge -- Part I. Over the Edge -- The Impossibility of Women's Studies -- Feminism, Institutionalism, and the Idiom of Failure -- Part II. Edged OUT -- Teaching and Research in Unavailable Intersections -- Feminism, Democracy, and Empire: Islam and the War of Terror -- Transfeminism and the Future of Gender -- Part III. Edging IN -- Discipline and Vanish: Feminism, the Resistance to Theory, and the Politics of Cultural Studies -- Whither Black Women's Studies: Interview -- Success and Its Failures -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: On Location -- I: HISTORIES OF THE PRESENT -- Feminist Cultural Literacy: Translating Differences, Cannibal Options -- Transnational Practices and Interdisciplinary Feminist Scholarship: Refiguring Women's and Gender Studies -- Notes from the (Non)Field: Teaching and Theorizing Women of Color -- The Progress of Gender: Whither ''Women''? -- The Present and Our Past: Simone de Beauvoir, Descartes, and Presentism in the Historiography of Feminism -- II: INSTITUTIONAL PEDAGOGIES (A FORUM) -- Contending with Disciplinarity -- The Past in Our Present: Theorizing the Activist Project of Women's Studies -- Rethinking Collectivity: Chicago Feminism, Athenian Democracy, and the Consumer University -- From Politics to Professionalism: Cultural Change in Women's Studies -- Battle-Weary Feminists and Supercharged Grrls: Generational Differences and Outsider Status in Women's Studies Administration -- Taking Account of Women's Studies -- Nice Work, If You Can Get It—and If You Can't? Building Women's Studies Without Tenure Lines -- The Politics of ''Excellence'' -- III: IN THE SHADOW OF CAPITAL -- Academic Housework: Women's Studies and Second Shifting -- (In)Different Spaces: Feminist Journeys from the Academy to a Mall -- Analogy and Complicity: Women's Studies, Lesbian/Gay Studies, and Capitalism -- Institutional Success and Political Vulnerability: A Lesson in the Importance of Allies -- Life After Women's Studies: Graduates and the Labor Market -- IV: CRITICAL CLASSROOMS -- Strangers in the Classroom -- ''Women of Color in the U.S.'': Pedagogical Reflections on the Politics of ''the Name'' -- Negotiating the Politics of Experiential Learning in Women's Studies: Lessons from the Community Action Project -- What Should Every Women's Studies Major Know? Reflections on the Capstone Seminar -- Subversive Couplings: On Antiracism and Postcolonialism in Graduate Women's Studies -- Afterword: Continuity and Change in Women's Studies -- Bibliography: Locating Feminism -- Contributors -- Index

This collection of essays explores educational issues confronting educators and researchers from various disciplines. They are grouped into four sections, with the first, "Business Economics and Management", discussing concepts such as contemporary urban theories, multiculturalism and the informal economy. The second section, "Linguistics and Literature", encompasses topics such as Russian-Chinese bilingualism and training in Russian phraseology for foreigners. The third section, "Education" considers issues such as language teaching and use of learning cycle model and the Socratic Seminar Technique. The fourth section, "History and Geography", looks at history education, historical consciousness, and cultural geography. This book will mainly appeal to educators, researchers, and students involved in social sciences.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: The Inventi on of Women's Studies -- Women's Studies: What Is It? -- Feminist Roots of Women's Studies: A Brief Look Back -- Women's Studies and the University -- Women's Studies Grows from Knowledge Outside the Academy -- Changing the Classroom as Part of Changing the University-First Steps -- What Is a Woman? And Other Early Questions -- Nature Versus Culture -- Women's Studies Around the World Broadens the Questioning -- Conclusion: Its Meaning Is Change -- Note -- Sugested Reading -- Chapter 2: The Foundations of Interdisciplinarity -- From Multidisciplinarity to Interdisciplinarity -- Women's Studies' Early Critical Edge -- Women's Studies New Critique of Reason -- Androgyny -- Women's Studies and the "L" Word -- Margins and Centers -- Mad Women in the Attic -- Conclusion -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 3: Intersectionality and Difference: Race, Class, and Gender -- Contests over Diference -- Race and the Birth of Intersectionality -- Ethnicity and Intersectionality -- Class and Intersectionality -- Pluralism and Its Critics -- Equality Versus Diference -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 4: Global Agendas -- The Legacy of Empire and Post-Colonialism -- The Post-Colonial Perspective -- Women in the Global Economy, Past and Present -- Women and Neo-liberalism -- Women's Migration in a Global Age -- Women and Poverty -- Development and Women's Poverty -- Orientalism and Its Chalenges -- Women's Global Subjectivity -- Global Feminist Activism and Modernity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 5: Violence, Militarization, Security, and Peace -- Securitization and Women's Activism -- Confronting Violence -- Conclusion -- Note -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 6: Women's Studies and the Question of Gender.

Women's Studies: The Basics is an accessible introduction into the ever expanding and increasingly relevant field of studies focused on women. Tracing the history of the discipline from its origins, this text sets out the main agendas of women's studies and feminism, exploring the global development of the subject over time, and highlighting its relevance in the contemporary world. Reflecting the diversity of the field, core themes include:the interdisciplinary nature of women's studiescore feminist theories and the feminist agendaissues of intersectionality: women, race, class and genderwomen