ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the ambivalent relationship between progress and continuity resonates in the contradictory stories. It explains three story-lines that negotiate proximity and distance between diversity and gender/feminism in the texts: enactments of generation, continuity and development, claims to conceptual commonality and the assertion of a common interest between diversity and gender/feminism. The situation of both needing Gender Studies scholars to approve of diversity, while attempting to show what makes diversity valuable and necessary in comparison with gender, necessitates a story that balances telling innovation and development in time with mutual respect and continuity. The short introductive anthology Gender and Diversity. Understanding and Shaping Diversity aims to give an overview of the central concepts, definitions and debates involved in the topic of gender and its relation to diversity. The phasing and glossing resonates with progress-narrations that are known in the academic community in touch with questions of feminism, gender and diversity.
