Theories of Women's Studies
eBook - ePub

Theories of Women's Studies

  1. 294 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Theories of Women's Studies

About this book

Women's Studies investigates the world from women-centred perspectives which cross the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines. Thus every issue, every question is material for Women's Studies. The worldwide development of Women's Studies during the 1970s and 1980s presented a radical challenge to the male-centred bias which dominated knowledge-making at the time.

Originally published in 1983, in this book feminist scholars discuss the assumptions and aims of Women's Studies, its connections with the women's movement, its research, its teaching and its emerging methodologies.

The contributors come from a range of disciplines: the humanities, the social and natural sciences, and from international backgrounds, primarily the USA, and Britain, Germany and Switzerland. They are united in working to develop a trans-disciplinary approach to the generation and distribution of knowledge and it is these new questions and their implications that demonstrate the exciting potential of a feminist education in women's international quest for social change.

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Yes, you can access Theories of Women's Studies by Gloria Bowles,Renate Duelli Klein in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Gender Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781040165584
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Original Title Page
  6. Original Copyright Page
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Dedication
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Notes on contributors
  11. 1 Introduction: theories of Women’s Studies and the autonomy/integration debate
  12. 2 Theorising about theorising
  13. 3 Is Women’s Studies an academic discipline?
  14. 4 Women’s Studies as an academic discipline: why and how to do it
  15. 5 Learning Women’s Studies
  16. 6 Feminism: a last chance for the humanities?
  17. 7 How to do what we want to do: thoughts about feminist methodology
  18. 8 Passionate scholarship: notes on values, knowing and method in feminist social science
  19. 9 Towards a methodology for feminist research
  20. 10 The value of quantitative methodology for feminist research
  21. 11 Experiential analysis: a contribution to feminist research
  22. 12 ‘Back into the personal’ or: our attempt to construct ‘feminist research’
  23. 13 Women’s Studies as a strategy for change: between criticism and vision
  24. 14 In praise of theory: the case for Women’s Studies
  25. 15 Selected annotated bibliography of articles on theories of Women’s Studies
  26. Index