Troubling Women's Studies: Pasts, Presents And Possibilities (Women's Issues Publishing Program)

Four essays present a multifaceted conversation about what is at stake in "passing on" the institutionalized project of Women's Studies. The authors explore what it means to live within the uncertainty that pervades Women's Studies and how feminist intellectuals might respond to it — intellectually, emotionally, politically, institutionally ad pedagogically. They subject their practices to the same kind of academc critique to which they subject the discipline, its location, theories, methods and pedagogies.