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- Politics of Women’s Studies: Testimony from the Founding Mothers
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- 2000
- Published by: The Feminist Press
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Contributions from over 30 "mothers" of women's studies programs document the politics, challenges, and sacrifices in the decades-long fight to create curricula, programs, and legitimacy for women's studies. Barbara Smith, Johnnetta Cole, Yolanda Moses, Kathryn Kish Sklar, Annette Kolodny, and many others tell of their difficult, momentous and only—sometimes—successful battle to claim a place at the table.
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- Preface: Everyone a Heroine
- pp. xi-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. xv-xxvi
- Part 1. Naming the Problem: The Absence of Women from the Curriculum and Scholarship
- Learning From Teaching
- pp. 3-15
- Beginning in the 1960s
- pp. 29-38
- Part 2. Overcoming Barriers: Ridicule, Reluctance, and Refusals
- The Gender Revolution
- pp. 57-68
- Imploding Marginality
- pp. 80-92
- A Cause of Our Own
- pp. 93-103
- An Odyssey
- pp. 104-116
- Part 3. Inventing Successful Strategies: The Power of Groups, Planning, and Publicity
- The Deoderant of Success
- pp. 119-129
- The Women’s Studies Movement: 1972
- pp. 130-141
- From the Bottom Up: The Students’ Initiative
- pp. 142-154
- Part 4. Providing Feminist Scholarship: For Texts, Teaching, and Other Scholars
- Building Black Women’s Studies
- pp. 194-203
- Other Mothers of Women’s Studies
- pp. 216-226
- Part 5. Building Women’s Studies Programs: No Easy Task Anywhere
- Modern Woman Not Lost
- pp. 229-242
- Dreams of Social Justice
- pp. 243-263
- Changing Signs
- pp. 264-275
- A Political Education
- pp. 291-305
- Has It Really Been Thirty Years?
- pp. 306-315
- Linking Ethnic Studies to Women’s Studies
- pp. 316-324
- Part 6. Looking Back: Cups Half Empty or Half Full?
- The Long Road Through Gendered Questions
- pp. 327-333
- Making A Place
- pp. 334-344
- The Ground Revisited
- pp. 345-352
- We Were Godmothers, Too
- pp. 353-364
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ISBN
9781558617865
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OCLC
1019655722
Pages
440
Launched on MUSE
2018-01-18
Language
English
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No
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