Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads

Intersectional Women’s Studies for Transracial Alliance

Kim Marie Vaz, Gary L. Lemons

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780415719780
• eBook ISBN: 9781136504808
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Feminism & Feminist Theory
• Index: Social Sciences

Women's studies programs and departments face ongoing fall-out from an economic crisis in higher education. Taking the form of budget-cuts, reduction of faculty lines and other resource allocations, for some programs and departments it has meant at best, a loss of disciplinary autonomy through consolidation, and at worst, academic foreclosure. Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads articulates a politics of commitment, hope, and possibility wrought in the coming-together of a group of feminist women and men—across racial, cultural, nation/state, sexual, and gender differences—during a tough budgetary time threatening Women's Studies programs across the nation. This anthology affirms the continued necessity of bridge-building alliances in women's studies and contemplates with promise the theory and practice of feminist solidarity forged through the course of its production. While the essays in this book display a complex diversity of feminist thought and modes of intersectional strategies, they reflect a unity of comradery and a spirit of collectivity so necessary for these turbulent times.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgement
• Introduction
• Part I: Women’s Studies at the Intersection of the Margins, Once Again
• Part II: Embodying Theory, Intersectional Herstories: A Call to Remember
• Part III: From “Heart to Heart”: Intersectional Approaches to Teaching in the Spirit of Political Love
• Part IV: At the Crossroads of Feminist Solidarity: New Coalitions, New Alliances
• Part V: Practicing Anti-Domination Politics: Visionary, Soulful Interventions
• Contributors
• Index