ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Asian feminist scholars’ radical ability to transform traditional models of thinking and learning through their scholarship and teaching as made possible by their location in women’s studies. Women’s studies is a place where Asian scholars are making a difference and making a safe haven for academic research and publication that may not have been possible within disciplinary boundaries and/or in male-dominated academic fields and spaces. Many prominent minority faculty members in women’s studies are tenured professors who chair and direct programs or departments at large research institutions, sometimes in conjunction with other minority studies programs such as African, Asian, and Latino/Chicano studies. The women’s studies department at the University at Buffalo offers courses in three clusters: cultures and identities, women and global citizenship, and gender and public policy, each of which recognizes developing trends in the studies of women in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and the United States.
