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Integrating Women's Studies with any curriculum, political science or otherwise, is a formidable task. And like most changes in curriculum, the integration of Women's Studies material has not come about in orderly fashion. There are some dimensions to Women's Studies integration, however, that set it apart from other curriculum change.The thrust of Women's Studies vis a vis any discipline is to revise and reinterpret that discipline from a feminist perspective. Feminist philosophy has argued that traditional methodologies, theories, and manifest analyses have contained a patriarchal bias which has excluded the impact of women from the intellectual evolution of humankind. Thus, on the discipline and on the academy itself, the very premise of Women's Studies makes demands which are far-reaching and threatening to establishment doctrine.

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

Introduction : women's and gender studies at the crossroads / Anu Aneja -- Part I. Stirrings, across time and place -- (How) 'to be or not to be' : women's and gender studies in India today / Sharon Pillai -- Feminist crossings in time and space : the question of culture / Mary E. John -- Dynamics of the women's movement and women's studies in India : an evolutionary perspective / Vibhuti Patel -- Intersections of gender, caste and class : agenda building in the Indian women's movement / Mangala Subramaniam and Preethi Krishnan -- Beyond essentialism : ecofeminism and the 'friction' between gender and ecology / Anindita Majumdar -- Locating disability in the Indian women's movement / Anita Ghai -- Part II. Interleaves : conceiving theories, theorizing identities -- Feminist theory and the aesthetic re-turn / Anu Aneja -- Masculinity, sexuality and culture : entangled narratives / Sanjay Srivastava -- Pride and prejudice : intersectional perspectives on identity formation through Indian pride events / Namita Paul -- (Dis)ability, gender and identity : crossing boundaries / Shubhangi Vaidya -- Gender, caste and Indian feminism : the case of the Women's Reservation Bill / Vrinda Marwah -- Bharat Mata, melodrama and the mediation of the national subject / Karen Gabriel -- Part III. In-disciplinarities -- Feminism across disciplines : from Plato's Academy to the streets of Delhi / Deepti Priya Mehrotra -- Reconfiguring the disciplinary boundaries of women's and gender studies through the genre of lifewritings / Meenakshi Malhotra -- Transgender studies in India : locating folklore and autobiographies as transgressive sites / Akshaya K. Rath -- Crafting spaces at new intersections : in search of psychoanalytic feminism for India / Rachana Johri -- (Dis)respectable selfies : honour, surveillance and undisciplined girl / Sujatha Subramanian -- Part IV. Entwining feminism and pedagogy : inside the institution -- Working through the women's and gender studies teaching machine : notes on the way forward / Sharon Pillai -- Blending in : reconciling feminist pedagogy and distance education across cultures / Anu Aneja -- Disrupting the gender binary : queering feminist pedagogy / Leena Pujari -- Part V. Conversations across borders -- Transnational feminist crossings : on neo-liberalism and radical critique / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- Globalization and Third Way theories : the beleaguered family and the marginalization of women / Taisha Abraham -- When feminists sidestep the nation state : transnational feminist journeys / Krishna Menon -- Queer and now : a roundtable form with Dipikia Jain, Akhil Kang, Sheena Malhotra, Hoshang Merchant, Shakthi Nataraj, Chayanika Shah, Nishant Shahani, Oishik Sircar and Ruth Vanita / Aneil Rallin.

Recent gender analyses have been opening new paths for innovation and excellence. They are the basis for the Gendered Innovations project, led by the science historian Londa Schiebinger, in joint collaboration with the European Union. However, this work did not come out of nowhere; it is supported by decades of gender and science studies consisting of different research lines that critically reviewed the history of science and recovered the story of women's contributions to different scientific fields. This paper reviews the origin and genealogy of the project, highlights its positive effects, and highlights examples of its achievements.

First made available online on 26 October 2018 ; Women's studies have come a long way. Precisely twenty years ago, the American historian Gerda Lerner wrote that "the striking fact about the historiography of women is the general neglect of the subject by historians". At that time, women as a subject were not only "hidden from history", but also hidden from the other humanities and social sciences. Scholarship was far from "objective" or "universal". Because it was based on male experience, placing men at the centre and as a measure of a] I things human, it left out half of humankind. In the past two decades, however, the situation has considerably changed. In an enormous (and enormously growing) body of scholarship women have been rendered visible. They have been placed at the centre and what women do, have to do, want to do has been re-evaluated. It has been re-evaluated in view of social, political and cultural change, of an improvement in women's situations and, more generally, in terms of a change towards more freedom and justice. But what was it, more precisely, that has been rendered visible by making women a subject of research? In a first step, it was their subjection, in a second step it was their subjectivity because women are not only victims, but they also actively shape their own lives and society.

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.