Women's Studies on Its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change
In: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
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