Feminist solidarity at the crossroads
Subtitle: intersectional women's studies for transracial alliance
By: edited by Kim Marie Vaz, Gary L. Lemons
Series: Routledge Research in gender and society -- 31
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415898867; 9780203145050
Subjects: Feminist theory; African American feminists; Women's studies; Racism
Description: "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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.