Women's studies on the edge

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