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A Journey into Women's Studies

Crossing Interdisciplinary Boundaries

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Editors:
  1. Rekha Pande

    1. University of Hyderabad, India

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Part of the book series: Gender, Development and Social Change (GDSC)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Rekha Pande
      Pages 1-12

  3. Crossing Interdisciplinary Boundaries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. From the Ground Up

      • Cynthia Enloe
      Pages 15-27

    3. My Women’s Studies Journey

      • Maithreyi Krishnaraj
      Pages 28-40

    4. Reclaiming My Education: A Passage to Consciousness

      • Nawar Al-Hassan Golley
      Pages 41-59

    5. Oppositional Imaginations: Multiple Lineages of Feminist Scholarship

      • Uma Chakravarti
      Pages 60-74

    6. From Feminist Activist to Professor

      • Drude Dahlerup
      Pages 75-100

    7. My Tryst with Women’s Studies

      • Rekha Pande
      Pages 101-121

  4. Articulating Regional Experiences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
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    2. Being a Woman and Doing Gender in Sweden

      • Anita Nyberg
      Pages 125-145

    3. Mainstreaming Women’s Studies in Higher Education — The Case of Vietnam

      • Thai Thi Ngoc Du
      Pages 146-157

    4. My Journey in Chinese Women’s Studies

      • Paul S. Ropp
      Pages 158-173

    5. Feminism and Women’s Studies in Japan

      • Ronni Alexander
      Pages 174-193

    6. Working on the History of Chinese Women: My Story

      • Clara Wing-Chung Ho
      Pages 194-211

    7. Feminism, Women’s Studies and the Women’s Movement in Canada: Two Canadian Perspectives

      • Marilyn Porter, Caroline Andrew
      Pages 212-228

  5. Transnational and Diasporic Experiences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229
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    2. Learning from Women for Women

      • Tahera Aftab
      Pages 231-254

    3. My Life Before and After Women’s Studies

      • Kwon Insook
      Pages 255-265

    4. A Personal Odyssey Towards “Feminist Curiosity”

      • Hülya Adak
      Pages 266-278
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About this book

The present book is a journey of many women across the world who have struggled to give women's studies visibility. Drawing upon the contributors' diverse experiences and concerns, it explores the metamorphosis of women's studies from the early days to date.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Hyderabad, India

    Rekha Pande

About the editor

Cynthia Enloe, Clark University in Worcester, USA Maithreyi Krishnaraj, SNDT University, India Nawar Al-Hassan Golley, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Uma Chakravarti, (Retd.) Delhi University, India Drude Dahlerup, University of Stockholm, Sweden Anita Nyberg, Stockholm University, Sweden Thai thi Ngoc Du, Hoa Sen University, Vietnam Paul S. Ropp, Clark University, USA Ronni Alexander, Kobe University, Japan Clara Wing-chung Ho, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Marilyn Porter, Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada Caroline Andrew, University of Ottawa, Canada Tahera Aftab, (Retd.) University of Karachi, Pakistan Insook, Myongji University, South Korea Hülya Adak, Sabanc? University, Turkey Simona Sharoni, SUNY Plattsburgh, USA Mona Eliasson , Gavle University, Sweden Geraldine Forbes, State University of New York Oswego, USA

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