1st Edition

Making Connections Women's Studies, Women's Movements, Women's Lives

Edited By Mary Kennedy, Cathy Lubelska, Val Walsh Copyright 1993
    228 Pages
    by Taylor & Francis

    228 Pages
    by Taylor & Francis

    First Published in 1993. This is a wide-ranging collection of essays bringing together contributions which address key issues and debates in contemporary women's studies and feminism. The variety of feminist identities and perspectives which emerge from these pages reveals the extent to which the diversities of women's experiences continue to reshape feminist knowledge and politics. A recurrent theme is how to work with our diversities, and to make connections which do not recreate hierarchies or oppressive practices privileging the experiences and aims of some women over those of others. Making Connections is an important contribution to ongoing feminist debates.

    Introduction: Making Connections: Women’s Studies, Women’s Movements, Women’s Lives, Section I. Identities and Feminisms, Chapter 1. Beyond Difference: Women and Coalition Politics, Chapter 2. Between Feminism and Orientalism, Chapter 3. The Precariousness of Heterosexual Feminist Identities, Section II. Redefining Knowledge, Chapter 4. Love and Romance as Objects of Feminist Knowledge, Chapter 5. In God’s Image or in Man’s Image: A Critique of Patriarchy in Christian Theology, Chapter 6. Layers of Difference: The Significance of a Self-Reflexive Research Practice for a Feminist Epistemological Project, Chapter 7. ‘Backlash’ in Historical Context, Section III. Feminist Research and Education, Chapter 8. Researching Adolescent Girls’ Perceptions of Unwanted Sexual Attention

    Biography

    Mary Kennedy is Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies in the Centre for Extra Mural Studies at Birbeck College London., Cathy Lubelska is Principal Lecturer in Social History and Women's Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. Val Walsh has just left her post as Course Leader for Communication Studies, Convener for new Women's Studies degree programme. She is now a freelance writer, researcher and consultant.