Is academic feminism dead? : theory in practice /
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| Imprint: | New York : New York University Press, c2000. |
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| 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 |
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
