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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.

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

Each no. also has a distinctive title. ; Vols. 1-33 lack whole numbering but constitute no. 1-88; no. 89-273 called also v. 34-124. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; "Edited by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University."

Each no. also has a distinctive title. ; Title varies. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Edited by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University.