Feminisms in the Academy

Author: Domna C. Stanton
Secondary Author: Abigail J. Stewart
ISBN: 9780472065660

Feminisms in the Academy explores the relationship between feminist scholarship and the other academic disciplines. Going beyond the conventional "mainstreaming" model which may tend to polarize and caricature positions, the essays employ existing epistemological and methodological tensions to generate productive dialogues within and among the humanities and social sciences, as well as in interdisciplinary areas such as African-American and Latina studies. Part I, "Questioning the Disciplines," addresses the challenges that feminist scholarship poses to unexamined assumptions in four emblematic disciplines: philosophy, art history, psychology, and literature. The essays here demonstrate that such challenges have posed new questions and dilemmas for the disciplines, as well as for feminist scholarship. Part II, "Reading Differently," investigates the ways in which gender as an analytic tool transforms disciplinary knowledge and creates an opening to other categories of difference in lit

Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publish Date: 1995

Subjects: Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Popular Culture, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Women in Academia)