Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies Volume 2

The second volume of Rethinking Womens and Gender Studies addresses the complexities and inherent paradoxes within the expansive knowledge project known as Womens and Gender Studies for audiences both inside and adjacent to the field. Each of the volumes chapters identifies and critically examines a key term that circulates in this field, exploring how the term has come to be understood and mobilized within its everyday narratives and practices. In constructing provocative genealogies for their terms, authors explicate the roles that this language, and the narratives attached to it, play in producing and limiting possible versions of the field. The ongoing aim of Rethinking Womens and Gender Studies, both in the original volume and this entirely new extension, is to trace and expose important paradoxes, ironies, and contradictions embedded in the field from its high theory to its casual conversations that rely on these terms. Forging collective conversation and intellectual community from its thoughtful and critical lines of inquiry, the second volume of Rethinking Womens and Gender Studies remains bracingly original and full of fresh insight. It provides a perfect complement for Feminist Theory, Senior Capstone, and introductory graduate-level courses offered in Womens and Gender Studies and related fields.