Article: Making Sense of Women's Studies; Jane Pilcher and Imelda Whelehan, Key Concepts in Gender Studies. London: Sage Publications; New Dehli: Thousand Oaks, 2004; Women's Studies in the Academy: Origins and Impacts, Robyn L. Rosen Pearson (Ed.). New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2004.

Both these texts offer a point of entry to Women's Studies but do so in very different ways. Women's Studies in the Academy: Origins and Impacts documents the historical story of women's entry into higher education in the US, of issues of racial and sex-based discrimination that hampered the entry of women into universities and continue to impede their progress there. Robyn Rosen comments that 'women's studies had come from...a long struggle for access to and then reform of higher education' (vii) and this is the central focus of this edited collection. Key Concepts in Gender Studies also seeks to map the development of women's studies and gender studies. Jane Pilcher and Imelda Whelehan ...

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