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"Feminist studies is an expression of the theoretical and interdisciplinary underpinnings of women's and gender studies. It is a diverse and ever-changing field that is contoured by the goal of understanding and theorizing the ways that social life is organized by complex "relations of ruling" that shape "everyday life" (Smith 1990). These are manifest within social, political, cultural, and economic institutions, social media, and everyday interactions. While feminist studies has a long history, it became institutionalized in academia beginning in the 1970s, through courses offered in different disciplines like English, History, Sociology, or Anthropology before Women's Studies programs were established and interdisciplinary courses developed. The presence and expression of Feminist Studies varies within disciplines and interdisciplines, and across regions, as demonstrated by the authors of the twenty-four chapters in this Companion. This chapter provides an overview of the Companion to Feminist Studies that is organized around three different dimensions that are key components of the field: Feminist Epistemologies and Its Discontents, Methodological Diversity, and Feminist Praxis"--

"Contemporary challenges for seeking new knowledge in feminist studies are intimately intertwined with methodological renewal that promotes justice and equality in changing global contexts. Written by some of the leading scholars in their fields, this edited collection focuses on the emergence of writing methodologies in feminist studies and their implications for the study of power and change. The book explores some of the central politics, ideas, and dimensions of power that shape and condition knowledge, at the same time as it elaborates critical, embodied, reflective and situated writing practices. By bringing together a variety of multi/transdisciplinary contributions in a single collection, the anthology offers a timely and intellectually stimulating contribution that deals with how new forms of writing research can contribute to promote fruitful analysis of inequality and power relations related to gender, racialisation, ethnicity, class and heteronormativity and their intersections. It also includes the complex relationship between author, text and audiences. The intended audience is postgraduates, researchers and academics within feminist and intersectionality studies across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The book is excellent as literature in feminist studies courses and helpful guidance for teaching writing sessions and workshops"--Provided by publisher

Contemporary challenges for seeking new knowledge in feminist studies are intimately intertwined with methodological renewal that promotes justice and equality in changing global contexts. Written by some of the leading scholars in their fields, this edited collection focuses on the emergence of writing methodologies in feminist studies and their implications for the study of power and change. The book explores some of the central politics, ideas, and dimensions of power that shape and condition knowledge, at the same time as it elaborates critical, embodied, reflective and situated writing pr

In 1994, Barbara Christian presciently outlined the many institutional challenges faced by Black feminism as a field in her essay "Diminishing Returns: Can Black Feminism Survive the Academy?" In this essay, Christian imagined a grim future marked by the abolishment of affirmative action and by deep cuts to funding and support for ethnic studies and gender studies programs and projects, a future that in many ways has come to pass. Yet a new generation of scholarship is evidence that Black feminist studies has not only survived but is producing some of the most intellectually innovative, politically imperative scholarship being done today. New Directions in Black Feminist Studies lecture series, organized by Grace Kyungwon Hong, Associate Professor, Department of Asian American Studies and Department of Gender Studies, brings together three scholars working across a number of fields and conversations in order to showcase the best of contemporary Black feminist scholarship, including Amber Jamilla Musser, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Washington University in St. Louis; Talitha Leflouria, Assistant Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University; and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, UC Irvine.