Screen LibraryWomen's studies on the edge
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Duke University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Durham |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 223 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
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9780822342526 (cloth : alk. paper) 0822342529 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822342748 (pbk. : alk. paper) 082234274X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | C913 |
| CLC: | C913.68 |
| Call Number: | C913.68/W872-26 |
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"A differences book"--Prelim. Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-210) and index. At 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 Women's Studies on the E |