Article: De-Americanizing American Studies and Feminist Studies: Notes of a Portuguese Feminist Americanist.

Feminist Studies and American Studies have made a difference in the academy (or, more precisely, in the North-American academy):(1) their oppositional and critical stance vis-a-vis institutional and disciplinary rigidity and compartmentalization has been a challenge to the established disciplines,(2) with far-reaching implications for the production of knowledge. Both fields have shown a concern with developing their own theories and methodologies; that is, both are in a large measure dominated by a self-reflexivity that fuels much of the debate among scholars within each field. Both fields have practiced (or at least have claimed to practice) a healthy and much needed ...

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