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Is Academic Feminism Dead? : Theory in Practice.
What role does theory play in academia today? How can feminist theory be made more relevant to the very real struggles undertaken by women of all professions, races, and sexual orientation? How can it be directed into more effective social activism, and how is theory itself a form of practice?. Femi...
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New York :
NYU Press,
2000.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; pa r t i Theory Binds: The Perils of Retrofit; 1 Retrofit: Gender, Cultural, and Class Exclusions inAmerican Studies; 2 Ethnocentrism/Essentialism: The Failure of theOntological Cure; 3 Maternal Presumption: The Personal Politics ofReproductive Rights; 4 Sex, Gender, and Same-Sex Marriage; pa r t i i Storytelling: Sites of Empowerment, Sitesof Exploitation; 5 The Virtual Anthropologist; 6 How History Matters: Complicating the Categoriesof "Western" and "Non-Western" Feminisms.
- 7 Bringing It All Home to the Bacon: A Ph. D.(Packinghouse Daughter) Examines Her Legacy8 Blood Ties and Blasphemy: American IndianWomen and the Problem of History; 9 Ella Que Tiene Jefes y No Los Ve, Se Queda en Cueros:Chicana Intellectuals (Re)Creating Revolution; pa r t i i i Starting Here, Starting Now: Challengesto Academic Practices; 10 Being Queer, Being Black: Living Out inAfro-American Studies; 11 Learning to Think and Teach about Race andGender despite Graduate School: ObstaclesWomen of Color Graduate Students Facein Sociology; 12 Anger, Resentment, and the Place of Mindin Academia.
- 13 Stupidity "Deconstructed"14 To Challenge Academic Individualism; Editors and Contributors; Index.