Transforming academies: issue 95

Comprising two themed parts, 'Theorising the First Wave Globally' and 'Mainstreamed or Muzzled', this issue contributes to current debates on academic feminism and makes crucial interventions about the importance of feminism transnationally, emphasising the significance of academic feminist readings of historyand academic transformations. INDICE: Editorial Transforming Academies: Global Genealogies; C.Hemmings PART I Theorizing the 'First Wave' Globally Editors: Pamela Caughie and Kanika Batra Introduction: Theorizing the 'First Wave' Globally; P.Caughie Resisting Heteronormativity/Resisting Recolonisation: Affective Bonds between IndigenousWomen in Southern Africa and the Difference(s) of Postcolonial Feminist History; W.Spurlin The Home, the Veil, and the World: Reading Ismat Chughtai Towards a 'Progressive' History of the Indian Women's Movement; K.Batra The New Woman and 'The Dusky Strand': The Place of Feminism and Women's Literature in Early Jamaican Nationalism; L.Rosenberg Afterword; A.Needham PART II Mainstream orMuzzled: Australian Academic Feminism Editor: A.Genovese Introduction: WorldsTurned Upside Down; A.Genovese Door Bitches of Club Feminism: Academia and Feminist Competency; Z.Simic Feminism in the Legal Academy: a Twentieth Century Abberation?; M.Thornton Feminist Publishing in a Cold Climate?: Australian Feminist Studies and the new ERA of Research; M.Spongberg Ambivalent Optimism: Women's and Gender Studies in Australian Universities; B.Baird Postscript; A.Curthoys

• ISBN: 978-0-230-27629-1
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 144
• Fecha Publicación: 18/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés