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Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy - Softcover

 
9780816649341: Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0816649340 ISBN 13: 9780816649341
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2007

Synopsis

Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations challenges the static figuring of feminist generations that positions the second wave of feminist scholars against a homogeneous third wave. Based on life stories from contemporary feminist scholars, this volume emphasizes how feminism develops unevenly over time and across institutions and, ultimately, offers a new paradigm for theorizing the intersections between generations and feminist waves of thought.

 

Contributors: Sam Bullington, U of Missouri; Susan Cahn, SUNY Buffalo; Dawn Rae Davis, U of Minnesota; Lisa J. Disch, U of Minnesota; Sara Evans, U of Minnesota; Elizabeth Faue, Wayne State U; Roderick A. Ferguson, U of Minnesota; Peter Hennen, Ohio State U at Newark; Wendy Leo Moore, Texas A&M U; Toni McNaron, U of Minnesota; Jean M. O’Brien, U of Minnesota; Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel, U of California, Santa Cruz; Anne Firor Scott, Duke U; Janet D. Spector, U of Minnesota; Amanda Lock Swarr, U of Washington, Seattle; Miglena Todorova, U of Minnesota.

 

Hokulani K. Aikau is assistant professor of indigenous politics in the department of political science at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. Karla A. Erickson is assistant professor of sociology at Grinnell College. Jennifer L. Pierce is associate professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota.

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Synopsis

By telling their personal stories, feminist scholars in the social sciences, history, and women's studies illustrate the changing lives, conceptual frameworks, and politics of feminism in the US academy over the past three decade. Of particular note is the difference in experience between those who came to feminism in the 1960s and 1970s and those

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Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0816649340
ISBN 13 
9780816649341
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
384
Editor
Aikau Hokulani K., Erickson Karla A., Pierce Jennifer L.