A Journey into Women's Studies [electronic resource] : Crossing Interdisciplinary Boundaries /
Pande, R.editor.
The present book is a journey of many women across the world who have struggled to give women's studies visibility. Drawing upon the contributors' diverse experiences and concerns, it explores the metamorphosis of women's studies from the early days to date.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Crossing Interdisciplinary Boundaries; 1 From the Ground Up; 2 My Women's Studies Journey; 3 Reclaiming My Education: A Passage to Consciousness; 4 Oppositional Imaginations: Multiple Lineages of Feminist Scholarship; 5 From Feminist Activist to Professor; 6 My Tryst with Women's Studies; Part II: Articulating Regional Experiences; 7 Being a Woman and Doing Gender in Sweden; 8 Mainstreaming Women's Studies in Higher Education - The Case of Vietnam; 9 My Journey in Chinese Women's Studies
10 Feminism and Women's Studies in Japan11 Working on the History of Chinese Women: My Story; 12 Feminism, Women's Studies and the Women's Movement in Canada: Two Canadian Perspectives; Part III: Transnational and Diasporic Experiences; 13 Learning from Women for Women; 14 My Life Before and After Women's Studies; 15 A Personal Odyssey Towards "Feminist Curiosity"; 16 The Personal Is (Still) Political: Feminist Reflections on a Transformative Journey; 17 State Feminism, Feminists and Women's Studies in Sweden; 18 My Life and Women's Studies; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The present book is a journey of many women across the world who have struggled to give women's studies visibility. Drawing upon the contributors' diverse experiences and concerns, it explores the metamorphosis of women's studies from the early days to date.
Economic development.
Social change.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Sociology.
Social policy.
Intellectual life-History.
Cultural studies.
Development and Social Change.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Gender Studies.
Social Policy.
Intellectual Studies.
Cultural Studies.