{"product_id":"womens-studies-on-the-edge-paperback","title":"Women's Studies on the Edge - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoan Wallach Scott\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt many universities, women's studies programs have achieved department status, establishing tenure-track appointments, graduate programs, and consistent course enrollments. Yet, as Joan Wallach Scott notes in her introduction to this collection, in the wake of its institutional successes, women's studies has begun to lose its critical purchase. Feminism, the driving political force behind women's studies, is often regarded as an outmoded political position by many of today's students, and activism is no longer central to women's studies programs on many campuses. In \u003ci\u003eWomen's Studies on the Edge\u003c\/i\u003e, leading feminist scholars tackle the critical, political, and institutional challenges that women's studies has faced since its widespread integration into university curricula. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe contributors to \u003ci\u003eWomen's Studies on the Edge\u003c\/i\u003e embrace feminism not as a set of prescriptions but as a critical stance, one that seeks to interrogate and disrupt prevailing systems of gender. Refusing to perpetuate and protect orthodoxies, they ask tough questions about the impact of institutionalization on the once radical field of women's studies; about the ongoing difficulties of articulating women's studies with ethnic, queer, and race studies; and about the limits of liberal concepts of emancipation for understanding non-Western women. They also question the viability of continuing to ground women's studies in identity politics authorized by personal experience. The multiple interpretations in \u003ci\u003eWomen's Studies on the Edge\u003c\/i\u003e sometimes overlap and sometimes stand in opposition to one another. The result is a collection that embodies the best aspects of critique: the intellectual and political stance that the contributors take to be feminism's ethos and its aim.\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eWendy Brown\u003cbr\u003eBeverly Guy-Sheftall\u003cbr\u003eEvelynn M. Hammonds\u003cbr\u003eSaba Mahmood\u003cbr\u003eBiddy Martin\u003cbr\u003eAfsaneh Najmabadi\u003cbr\u003eEllen Rooney \u003cbr\u003eGayle Salamon\u003cbr\u003eJoan Wallach Scott\u003cbr\u003eRobyn Wiegman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoan Wallach Scott is the Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her many books include \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of the Veil\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGender and the Politics of History\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFeminists Theorize the Political\u003c\/i\u003e (co-edited with Judith Butler).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9.22 x 6.27 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 09, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54053432590643,"sku":"9780822342748","price":58.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/2QAKLMrRIX9780822342748.webp?v=1789019908","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/womens-studies-on-the-edge-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}