ABSTRACT
Women’s studies programs and departments face ongoing fall-out from an economic crisis in higher education. Taking the form of budget-cuts, reduction of faculty lines and other resource allocations, for some programs and departments it has meant at best, a loss of disciplinary autonomy through consolidation, and at worst, academic foreclosure. Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads articulates a politics of commitment, hope, and possibility wrought in the coming-together of a group of feminist women and men—across racial, cultural, nation/state, sexual, and gender differences—during a tough budgetary time threatening Women’s Studies programs across the nation. This anthology affirms the continued necessity of bridge-building alliances in women’s studies and contemplates with promise the theory and practice of feminist solidarity forged through the course of its production. While the essays in this book display a complex diversity of feminist thought and modes of intersectional strategies, they reflect a unity of comradery and a spirit of collectivity so necessary for these turbulent times.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |16 pages
Introduction
part |40 pages
Women's Studies at the Intersection of the Margins, Once Again
chapter |13 pages
Resegregating Women's Studies
chapter |13 pages
Resisting Erasure
part |37 pages
Embodying Theory, Intersectional Herstories
part |52 pages
From “heart to Heart”
chapter |15 pages
“Brothers of the Soul”
chapter |13 pages
“Making Our Roads by Walking”
part |55 pages
At the Crossroads of Feminist Solidarity
chapter |16 pages
“Women's Studies Is Not My Home?”
chapter |20 pages
Anti-Racist Interventions in the Academy
part |25 pages
Practicing anti-Domination Politics