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Article: WHICH WOMEN'S STUDIES?('Women's Studies on the Edge' and 'The Evolution of Women's Studies: Reflections on Triumphs, Controversies, and Change')(Book review)
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- Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
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- June 22, 2009
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Joan Wallach Scott, ed., WOMEN'S STUDIES ON THE EDGE. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. 240p. bibl. index. pap., $22.95, ISBN 978-0822342748.
Alice E. Ginsberg, ed., THE EVOLUTION OF WOMEN'S STUDIES: REFLECTIONS ON TRIUMPHS, CONTROVERSIES, AND CHANGE. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 256p. index. $74.95, ISBN 978-0230605794.
I received my Ph.D. and started my first academic job in women's studies in 1998. Around that time, a special issue of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies was published, guest-edited by Joan Wallach Scott and titled "Women's Studies on the Edge." (2) With a freshly minted dissertation about U.S. women's ...