Dear Colleagues,

The purpose of this special issue is to identify what the shift from Women’s Studies to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies has meant for the theory and praxis of feminisms around the world. In particular, we would like articles that examine when and why this shift began, how it is reflected in curricular as well as theoretical discussions, and the implications of this for gender justice within and outside the academy.

The field of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, today looks a lot different from its predecessor, Women’s Studies, of the late 1960s. In other words, it is not your mother’s Women’s Studies. In addition to the changes reflected in the name, it has become a vibrant and contested field that has dealt with among other issues: the dissolution of the category woman and gender; intersectionality; the transnational context of feminist debates and how ideas and theories travel; the differential impact of global neoliberalization and its consequences for interdisciplinary programs, such as Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

In this Special Issue, we are looking for theoretical, empirical, and comparative papers that examine the ways in which the field has transformed, the current tensions and debates, emerging directions and the ways in which these changes have set forth, to borrow Joan Scott’s felicitous phrase, “feminist reverberations” inside and outside the academy.

Prof. Manisha Desai
Guest Editor

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• Women
• Gender
• Transgender
• Intersectionality
• Sexuality
• Transnational
• Feminist

References:

1. Bouchard, Danielle. A Community of Disagreement: Feminism in the Universities. New York: Peter Lang, 2012.
2. Braithwaite, Anne. Troubling Women’s Studies. Toronto: Sumac Press, 2004.
3. Kennedy, Elizabeth, and Agatha Beins. Women’s Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
4. Magarey, Susan. Dangerous Ideas: Women’s liberation-women’s studies-around the world. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2014.
5. Clarke, Cheryl. “But Some of Us Are Brave and the Transformation of the Academy: Transformation? (‘All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us are Brave: Black Women’s Studies’.” Signs 35 (2010): 779–88.
6. Scott, Joan. Women’s Studies on the Edge. Durham: Duke University Press,
7. Smith, Bonnie. Women’s Studies: The Basics. New York: Routledge,
8. University of Minnesota Social Justice Group. Is Academic Feminism Dead?: Theory in Practice. New York: New York University Press, 2000.