Making Connections: Women's Studies, Women's Movements, Women's Lives

ISBN-13: 9780748400973 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 228 str.

Mary Kennedy; Cathy Lubelska; Val Walsh

Opis

This collection brings together contributions which address issues and debates within contemporary women's studies and feminism. The variety of feminist perspectives which emerge from these papers reveal the extent to which the diversities of women's experiences continue to reshape feminist knowledge and politics. A recurrent theme is how to work with these diversitites, and how to make connections which do not recreate hierarchies or oppressive practices, which privilege the experiences and aims of some women over those of others. The contributions here, from inside and outside the academy, give expression to the multiplicity of feminist voices which inform the educational and political development of women's studies in the 1990s.

Spis treści

Introduction: Making Connections: Women’s Studies, Women’s Movements, Women’s Lives, Section I. Identities and Feminisms, Chapter 1. Beyond Difference: Women and Coalition Politics, Chapter 2. Between Feminism and Orientalism, Chapter 3. The Precariousness of Heterosexual Feminist Identities, Section II. Redefining Knowledge, Chapter 4. Love and Romance as Objects of Feminist Knowledge, Chapter 5. In God’s Image or in Man’s Image: A Critique of Patriarchy in Christian Theology, Chapter 6. Layers of Difference: The Significance of a Self-Reflexive Research Practice for a Feminist Epistemological Project, Chapter 7. ‘Backlash’ in Historical Context, Section III. Feminist Research and Education, Chapter 8. Researching Adolescent Girls’ Perceptions of Unwanted Sexual Attention

O autorze

Mary Kennedy is Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies in the Centre for Extra Mural Studies at Birbeck College London., Cathy Lubelska is Principal Lecturer in Social History and Women's Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. Val Walsh has just left her post as Course Leader for Communication Studies, Convener for new Women's Studies degree programme. She is now a freelance writer, researcher and consultant.