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The Evolution of American Women’s Studies

Reflections on Triumphs, Controversies, and Change

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  1. Alice E. Ginsberg
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Alice E. Ginsberg
      Pages 1-6

  4. Reflections

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
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    2. A Personal and Epistemological Journey toward Women’s Studies

      • Margaret Smith Crocco
      Pages 41-53

    3. Gender at the Center: The Making of an Educator

      • Joan Poliner Shapiro
      Pages 55-65

    4. Women Studies—The Early Years: When Sisterhood Was Powerful

      • Paula Rothenberg
      Pages 67-86

    5. What Took Me So Long?: A Well-Behaved Woman Finds Women’s Studies

      • Jill McLean Taylor
      Pages 87-101

    6. Women’s Studies: A View from the Margins

      • Beverly Guy-Sheftall
      Pages 103-115

    7. On Being a Pre-Feminist Feminist OR How I Came to Women’s Studies and What I Did There

      • Evelyn Torton Beck
      Pages 117-130

    8. Women’s Studies: Cultivating Accountability as a Practice of Solidarity

      • Ann Russo
      Pages 131-152

    9. My Life and Work in Women’s Studies (Now Gender Studies)

      • Judith Lorber
      Pages 153-163

    10. Continuity and Change in Women’s Studies Programs: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward

      • C. Alejandra Elenes
      Pages 165-182

    11. Women’s Studies, Health, and Science: Evolution from Separation to the Beginnings of Integration

      • Sue V. Rosser
      Pages 183-198

    12. Reflections on a Feminist Career

      • Nancy A. Naples
      Pages 199-211

    13. What Year Is It?

      • Jean Fox O’Barr
      Pages 213-222

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 223-239
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About this book

This book is comprised of reflections by diverse women's studies scholars, focusing on the many ways in which the field has evolved from its first introduction in the University setting to the present day.

About the authors

ALICE E. GINSBERG is the author of Gender in Urban Education: Strategies for Student Achievement (2005) and Gender and Educational Philanthropy (Palgrave, 2007) and is currently an independent education consultant.

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