Women's Studies on the Edge

by Joan Wallach Scott

Book Overview

At many universities, women's studies programs have achieved department status, establishing tenure-track appointments, graduate programs, and consistent course enrollments. Yet, as Joan Wallach Scott notes in her introduction to this collection, in the wake of its institutional successes, women's studies has begun to lose its critical purchase. Feminism, the driving political force behind women's studies, is often regarded as an outmoded political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082234274X
• ISBN13: 9780822342748
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"