New Frontiers In Women's Studies

by Mary Maynard; June Purvis

• ISBN13: 9780203987438
• ISBN10: 0203987438
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135747053
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-07-20
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This text reveals the diversities which continue to shape women's beliefs and experiences. It includes debates on women and nationalisms, women and social policy, sexuality, black studies and ethnic studies, women and education, women and cultural production and women's studies and gender studies.

Table of Contents

On the move - new agendas for women's studies

Challenging the boundaries - towards an anti-racist women's studies

Cnti- colonial subjects? post-colonial subjects? nationalisms, ethnocentrisms and feminist scholarship, Joanna de Groot

What happened to feminist politics in "gender training"?

He political and the personal - women's writing in China in the 1980s

Reassessing representations of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, militant feminists in Edwardian Britain - on the importance of a knowledge of our feminist past, June Purvis

Gender, nation and scholarship - reflections on gender/women's studies in the Czech Republic

Possibilities for women's studies in post- communist countries - where are we going? Svetlana Kupryashkina

Women in movement - identity, migration and nationalism

Resituating discourses of "whiteness" and "Asianess" in Northern England - second generation Sikh women and constructions of identity

Women who move - experiences of diaspora

Ireland - the home of our mothers and our birthright for ages? Irish migrant women's identifications with nation and/or diaspora

Boundary politics - women, nationalism and danger

Gender, colonialism and nationalism - women activists in Uttar Pradesh, India

East German women five years after the "wende"

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