A Feminist Perspective in the Academy - The Difference It Makes

The advent of women's studies has brought a feminist perspective into the academy--but has it made a difference there? Has it transformed our curriculum; has it reshaped our materials; has it altered our knowledge?
In the essays collected here, nine distinguished scholars provide an overview of the differences the feminist perspective makes--and could make--in scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Carefully documented and judiciously critical, these essays inform the reader about developments in feminist scholarship in literary criticism, the performing arts, religion, history, political science, economics, anthropology, psychology, and sociology. The authors point out achievements of lasting value and indicate how these might become an integral part of the various disciplines.

About the author

Elizabeth Langland, associate professor and chair of the English Department at Converse College, coedited "The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development." Walter Gove, professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University, is the editor of "Nature and Nurture: The Fundamental Connection and Deviants: The Sociology of Mental Illness."

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Langland
• Assisted by: W. Gove (Editor), Walter Gove (Editor), Walter R. Gove (Editor), Elizabeth Langland (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1984
• EAN: 9780226468754
• ISBN: 978-0-226-46875-4
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 23 mm x 1 mm
• Weight: 284 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories