Feminist Studies articles from June 1998

Feminist Studies archives from June 1998

Made in America: "French feminism" in academia.
June 22, 1998... This article originated in puzzlement and frustration. Much has been written in the United States about a "French feminism" influenced by Lacanian psychoanalysis and by other poststructuralist explanations for women's condition, of which Helene...

Disciplined by disciplines? The need for an "interdisciplinary" research mission in women's studies.
June 22, 1998... "[F]rom the outset, Women's Studies made no secret of the fact that it aimed at crossing disciplinary boundaries. Since the drama of 'life' does not take place in a glass-womb. . . . subject compartmentalization needs to be broken down in order...

(Inter)disciplinarity and the question of the women's studies Ph.D.
June 22, 1998... I am of two minds about interdisciplinary doctoral programs in women's studies. Mostly, I oppose them, but second thoughts unravel many of my objections, leaving me to wonder about grand futures and how we might get to them. My ambivalence is...

Engaging difference: racial and global perspectives in graduate women's studies education.
June 22, 1998... Six years ago I completed a report for the Ford Foundation, "The Status of Women's Studies, 1969-1992,"(1) in which I analyzed the development of this new interdisciplinary field over its twenty-three-year history, assessed its current status...

"Isn't just being here political enough?" Feminist action-oriented research as a challenge to graduate women's studies.
June 22, 1998... This article was written as a response to our experience as three M.A. students in women's studies at Simon Fraser University, who organized a workshop on feminist action-oriented research at York University's 1995 conference, "Graduate Women's...

Collaborating on women's studies: the University of Toronto model.
June 22, 1998... In 1994-95 the University of Toronto Graduate Collaborative Program in Women's Studies completed its first year of operation, offering graduate degrees at all levels in the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences. As of July 1998 we had...

The joint doctoral program at the University of Michigan.
June 22, 1998... In 1972 the Women's Studies Program offered its first course at the University of Michigan. By 1973 an undergraduate concentration had been established. From the beginning, graduate students were actively involved in the program, advocating its...

Establishing an international doctoral program in women studies at the University of Washington.
June 22, 1998... In December 1997, the University of Washington's Board of Regents gave final approval to a new graduate program within the Department of Women Studies. Offering both the M.A. and the Ph.D. in interdisciplinary, international feminist studies, the...

Testifying: my experience in women's studies doctoral training at Clark University.
June 22, 1998... On May 17, 1998, I became the first graduate of the Clark University women's studies Ph.D. program. I walked across the stage to accept my doctoral degree, which was awarded in September 1997, five years after the program officially began. Marcia...

Remapping the university: the promise of the women's studies Ph.D.
June 22, 1998... A MAJOR NEW RIPPLE Almost thirty years ago Newsweek magazine called women's studies "one of the hottest new wrinkles in higher education." It was then-and in some cases remains-an academic foundling, a lively upstart demanding attention,...

The meaning and uses of feminism in introductory women's studies textbooks.
June 22, 1998... The uniform criterion applied in these analyses is what I have called a feminist perspective. That is, starting from the premise that women and men have the same potential for individual development, this view examines the way social institutions...

How I became a writer. (poem)
June 22, 1998... I peel off the sweaty dank of dawn bedclothes, tiptoe to the door, soft, soft, so the gorilla with iron fingers that waits in the next room won't hear me. Sidle out. Then I'm running, but lightly, still on my toes, glancing back until I reach the...

The algebra of snow. (short story)
June 22, 1998... You should be brought up to date, the way I would have told it to anyone. The day after the first snow I stand in the canned fruit and vegetable aisle, looking at the cans of mandarin oranges in the cart. I look at the grocery list. It does...