A Feminist Perspective in the Academy
The Difference It Makes
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A Feminist Perspective in the Academy
The Difference It Makes
The advent of women’s studies has brought a feminist perspective into the academy—but has it made a difference there? Has it transformed our curriculum; has it reshaped our materials; has it altered our knowledge?
In the essays collected here, nine distinguished scholars provide an overview of the differences the feminist perspective makes—and could make—in scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Carefully documented and judiciously critical, these essays inform the reader about developments in feminist scholarship in literary criticism, the performing arts, religion, history, political science, economics, anthropology, psychology, and sociology. The authors point out achievements of lasting value and indicate how these might become an integral part of the various disciplines.
In the essays collected here, nine distinguished scholars provide an overview of the differences the feminist perspective makes—and could make—in scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Carefully documented and judiciously critical, these essays inform the reader about developments in feminist scholarship in literary criticism, the performing arts, religion, history, political science, economics, anthropology, psychology, and sociology. The authors point out achievements of lasting value and indicate how these might become an integral part of the various disciplines.
Table of Contents
Editor’s Notes
Elizabeth Langland and Walter Gove
The Difference It Makes
Patricia Meyer Spacks
New Directions for Feminist Criticism in Theatre and the Related Arts
Nancy S. Reinhardt
The Feminist Critique in Religious Studies
Rosemary Radford Ruether
What the Women’s Movement Has Done to American History
Carl N. Degler
Speaking From Silence: Women and the Science of Politics
Nannerl O. Keohane
How the Study of Women Has Restructured the Discipline of Economics
Nancy S. Barrett
Anthropology and the Study of Gender
Judith Shapiro
Changing Conceptions of Men and Women: A Psychologist’s Perspective
Janet T. Spence
Women in Sociological Analysis: New Scholarship Versus Old Paradigms
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
Elizabeth Langland and Walter Gove
The Difference It Makes
Patricia Meyer Spacks
New Directions for Feminist Criticism in Theatre and the Related Arts
Nancy S. Reinhardt
The Feminist Critique in Religious Studies
Rosemary Radford Ruether
What the Women’s Movement Has Done to American History
Carl N. Degler
Speaking From Silence: Women and the Science of Politics
Nannerl O. Keohane
How the Study of Women Has Restructured the Discipline of Economics
Nancy S. Barrett
Anthropology and the Study of Gender
Judith Shapiro
Changing Conceptions of Men and Women: A Psychologist’s Perspective
Janet T. Spence
Women in Sociological Analysis: New Scholarship Versus Old Paradigms
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
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