SUCCESS AND ITS FAILURES
If women’s studies has reached a point of stasis on some campuses, it is due in no small measure to its success. Women’s studies has succeeded in defining and delimiting objects of knowledge, authorizing new critical practices, significantly affecting scholarship in a number of disciplines, defining...
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| Published in | Women's Studies on the Edge p. 169 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Duke University Press
09.06.2008
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | If women’s studies has reached a point of stasis on some campuses, it is due in no small measure to its success. Women’s studies has succeeded in defining and delimiting objects of knowledge, authorizing new critical practices, significantly affecting scholarship in a number of disciplines, defining important political issues, and establishing itself as a legitimate academic and administrative unit on hundreds of college and university campuses.With these kinds of successes come problems. Having delimited a proper object and carved out particular domains, having generated and disseminated specific analytic practices, having developed consensus about at least some key political problems, and |
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| ISBN: | 9780822342526 0822342529 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctv11sn3bm.11 |