Introduction: Feminism's Critical Edge / Joan Wallach Scott 1
I. Over the Edge
The Impossibility of Women's Studies / Wendy Brown 17
Feminism, Institutionalism, and the Idiom of Failure / Robyn
Wiegman 39
II. Edged Out
Teaching and Research in Unavailable Intersections / Afsaneh
Najmabadi 69
Feminism, Democracy, and Empire: Islam and the War of Terror / Saba
Mahmood 81
Transfeminism and the Future of Gender / Gayle Salamon 115
III. Edging In
Discipline and Vanish: Feminism, the Resistance to Theory, and the
Politics of Cultural Studies / Ellen Rooney 139
Whither Black Women's Studies: Interview / Beverly Guy-Sheftall
with Evelynn M. Hammonds 155
Success and Its Failures / Biddy Martin 169
Works Cited 199
Contributors 211
Index 215
Essays on the future of women's studies as a discipline, edited by one of the most important figures in women's history
Joan Wallach Scott is the Harold F. Linder Professor of Social
Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her many books include
The Politics of the Veil, Gender and the Politics of History, and
Feminists Theorize the Political (co-edited with Judith
Butler).
"With its combination of landmark and new contributions, Women's Studies on the Edge will be a valuable addition to the library of any feminist scholar." - Elizabeth Groeneveld, Third Space "Women's Studies on the Edge ... opens possibilities for a vibrant, transformed future for women's studies." - Barbara Scott Winkler, Feminist Formations "This collection of eight essays, edited by Joan Wallach Scott, discusses the impact of institutional success on women's studies programs in the United States... All the essays, each thoughtful in their own right, represent ideas that have unevenly infused academia but that continue to be salient." - Susie S. Porter, Affilia "An important acquisition for institutions that have (or are in the process of setting up) programs in women's studies, gender studies, or cultural studies. Essential." - N. B. Rosenthal, Choice
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