Disciplining feminism : from social activism to academic discourse /

How was academic feminism formed by the very institutions it originally set out to transform? This is the question Ellen Messer-Davidow seeks to answer in Disciplining Feminism. Launched thirty years ago as a bold venture to cut across disciplines and bridge the gap between scholarly knowledge and s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Messer-Davidow, Ellen
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Feminism and education > United States.
Women's studies > United States.
Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2001040715.html
http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0c4z5-aa
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments ix
  • Introduction: Knowing and Doing i
  • Part I. Confronting the Institutional-Disciplinary Order
  • I. Disciplining Women 19
  • 2. Constructing Sex Discrimination 49
  • Part 2. Institutionalizing and Intellectualizing Feminist Studies
  • 3. Articulating Projects 87
  • 4. Formatting Feminist Studies 129
  • 5. Proliferating the Discourse i66
  • Part 3. Crystallizing the Future
  • 6. Remaking Change Agency 221
  • 7. Playing by the New Rules 269.

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