Is academic feminism dead? : theory in practice /

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Imprint:New York : New York University Press, c2000.
Description:vii, 391 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4345969
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Other authors / contributors:University of Minnesota. Social Justice Group.
ISBN:0814727050 (pbk. : alk. pbk.)
0814727042 (cloth : alk. pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Theory Binds: The Perils of Retrofit
  • 1. Retrofit: Gender, Cultural, and Class Exclusions in American Studies
  • 2. Ethnocentrism/Essentialism: The Failure of the Ontological Cure
  • 3. Maternal Presumption: The Personal Politics of Reproductive Rights
  • 4. Sex, Gender, and Same-Sex Marriage
  • Part II. Storytelling: Sites of Empowerment, Sites of Exploitation
  • 5. The Virtual Anthropologist
  • 6. How History Matters: Complicating the Categories of "Western" and "Non-Western" Feminisms
  • 7. Bringing It All Home to the Bacon: A Ph.D. (Packinghouse Daughter) Examines Her Legacy
  • 8. Blood Ties and Blasphemy: American Indian Women and the Problem of History
  • 9. Ella Que Tiene Jefes y No Los Ve, Se Queda en Cueros: Chicana Intellectuals (Re)Creating Revolution
  • Part III. Starting Here, Starting Now: Challenges to Academic Practices
  • 10. Being Queer, Being Black: Living Out in Afro-American Studies
  • 11. Learning to Think and Teach about Race and Gender despite Graduate School: Obstacles Women of Color Graduate Students Face in Sociology
  • 12. Anger, Resentment, and the Place of Mind in Academia
  • 13. Stupidity "Deconstructed"
  • 14. To Challenge Academic Individualism
  • Editors and Contributors
  • Index