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Beginning in 1869, when the study of homosexuality can be said to have begun with the establishment of sexology, this encyclopedia offers accounts of the most important international developments in an area that now occupies a critical place in many fields of academic endeavors. It covers a long history and a dynamic and ever changing present, while opening up the academic profession to new scholarship and new ways of thinking

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