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1 online resource |
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Gender, development and social change |
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Gender, development and social change.
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| Contents |
PART I: CROSSING INTERDISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES -- 1. From the Ground Up; Cynthia Enloe -- 2. My Women's Studies Journey; Maithreyi Krishnaraj -- 3. Reclaiming my Education: A Passage to Consciousness; Nawar Al-Hassan Golley -- 4. Oppositional Imaginations: Multiple Lineages of feminist Scholarship; Uma Chakravarti -- 5. From Feminist Activist to Professor; Drude Dahlerup -- 6. My Tryst with Women's Studies; Rekha Pande -- PART II: ARTICULATING REGIONAL EXPERIENCES -- 7. Being a Woman and doing Gender in Sweden; Anita Nyberg -- 8. Mainstreaming Women's Studies in Higher Education ₆ The Case of Vietnam; Thai thi Ngoc Du -- 9. My Journey in Chinese Women's Studies; Paul S. Ropp -- 10. Feminism and Women's Studies in Japan; Ronni Alexander -- 11. Working on the History of Chinese Women: My Story; Clara Wing-chung Ho -- 12. Feminism, Women's Studies and the Women's Movement in Canada: Two Canadian Perspectives; Marilyn Porter and Caroline Andrew -- PART III: TRANSNATIONAL AND DIASPORIC EXPERIENCES -- 13. Learning from Women for Women; Tahera Aftab -- 14. My Life before and after Women's Studies- Insook; Myongji University -- 15. A Personal Odyssey toward 'Feminist Curiosity';Hulya Adak -- 16. The Personal is (still) Political: Feminist Reflections on a Transformative Journey; Simona Sharoni -- 17. State Feminism, Feminists and Women's Studies in Sweden; Mona Eliasson -- 18. My Life and Women's Studies; Geraldine Forbes |
| Summary |
Unlike many other mainstream disciplines that only seek to broaden knowledge and thus become additive, women's studies try to question and posit new ways of thinking, inaugurating paradigm shifts and thus becoming subversive by trying to question established hierarchies of knowledge. This has not been an easy journey and the practitioners of this new approach have faced numerous odds as all pioneering endeavours encounter. This journey is a story that needs to be told and the present book attempts to do this by charting the trajectories of few women's studies scholars and their academic sojourn. These scholars have been confined not just to the traditional dominant hierarchies of knowledge but by their own making, ventured into new areas, which has now emerged from the margins to the forefront. The point of emphasis is that the writings of scholars like Cynthia Enloe who dared to break boundaries and were questioned earlier have now become part of an acclaimed field of research. This volume explores the metamorphosis of women's studies from the early days to date and draws upon the contributors' diverse experiences and concerns, but all revolving around the same key issue: gender |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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| Subject |
Women's studies.
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women's studies.
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Feminism & feminist theory.
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Gender studies: women.
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History of ideas.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Women's studies.
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Feminism & feminist theory.
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Gender studies: women & girls.
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History of ideas.
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Society.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pande, Rekha, 1955- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781137395740 |
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1137395745 |
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1137395737 |
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9781137395733 |
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