Theories of Women's Studies

300 Pages·1983·62.74 MB·English

by  Gloria Bowles (editor)

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Edited by
Gloria Bowles and Renate Duelli Klein
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PETER&OROUGH, ONT.
Routledge & Kegan Paul
London, Boston, Melbourne and Henley
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First published i11 1983
by Routledge & Kegan Paul pie
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9 Park Street, Boston, Mass. 02108, USA,
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Set in Journal 10/12pt. by
Columns, Reading, Great Britain
Printed in the United States of America
© Gloria Bowles and Renate Du.elli Klein 1983
'Towards a rnethodology for feminist research'
by Maria Mies © Maria Mies 1983
No part of this book may be reproduced in
any form without permission from the
publisl,er, except for the quotation of brief
passages in criticfrm
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Theo·ries of women's studies.
Bibliography: p.
Jnc/11des index.
1. Women's studies - Addresses, essays, lectures.
1. Bowles, Gloria. 2. Duel/i-Klein, Renate.
HQI 180. T48 1983 305.4'2'072 82-19512
JSBN 0-7100-9488-4
Contents
Acknowledgments / 1x
Notes on contributors / x1
1 Introduction: theories of Women's Studies and the autonomy/
integration debate / 1
Gloria Bowles and Renate Duelli Klein
2 Theorising about theorising / 27
Dale Spender
3 Is Women's Studies an academic discipline?
Gloria Bowles
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4 Women's as an academic discipline: why and how to
do it / (46
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Sandra Coy-n r /-____
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5 Learning Women's Studies 1 7
Taly Rutenberg
6 Feminism: a last chance for the humanities? / 79
Bari Watkins
7 How to do ,vhat we want to do: thoughts about feminist
methodology / 88
Renate Duelli Klein
vi/Contents
8 Passionate scholarship: notes on values, knowing and method
in fe,ninist social science / 105
Barbara Du Bois
9 Towards a ,ncthodology for feminist research / 117
Maria Mies
10 The value of quantitative methodology for feminist
research / 140
Toby Epstein Jayaratne
11 Experiential analysis: a contribution to feminist
research / 162
Shulamit Reinharz
12 'Back into the personal' or: our attempt to construct
'feminist research ' / 192
Liz Stanley and Sue Wise
13 Women's Studies as a strategy for change: between criticism
and vision / 210
Marcia Westkott
14 ln praise of theory: the case for Women's Studies / 219
Mary Evans
15 Selected annotated bibliography of articles on theories of
Women's Studies / 229
Gloria Bowles, Renate Duelli Klein and Taly Rutenberg
Index / 268