Diving (Back) into the Wreck
Finding, Transforming, and Reimagining Women's Studies and Sexuality Studies in the Academy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4414443 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Fahs (0000-0001-6843-8066, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 496-501 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0046-3663 • E-ISSN: 2153-3873 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/fem.2013.0040 |
| OpenAlex | W2354407175 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
For over a decade, the proliferation of donor funding and student enthusiasm for sexuality studies has spurred the creation of new programs and research centers across US and Canadian campuses. Many of these new sites have been established as distinct and separate from pre-existing women’s studies units — at times in response to donor mandates and, at other times, to reflect intellectual/political leanings. More recently, however, several university administrations have attempted to fuse sexuality and/ or LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) studies and women’s studies units (along with other related units) in the name of cutting costs. In other settings, faculty have proposed consolidation in the interest of fostering intellectual synergies. Yet another context is that of newer women, gender, and sexuality studies units that incorporate a variety of impulses, but that are nonetheless under restructuring pressure to consolidate with other campus units. Over the last year, Feminist Studies invited a cross-national conversation on these changes, foregrounding the question “whither feminisms?” What are the implications, as institutional homes mutate, for interdisciplinary and politically charged feminist work? What do separate institutional spaces for studying sexuality, gender, and women signal? What is gained and what is lost when consolidation occurs? In the resulting forum presented here, administrators, instructors, and scholars comment on the current place and future of women’s studies and sexuality studies programs in the US and Canadian academies today. The participants in this forum are all tenured faculty at research universities across the United States and Canada, with the majority of participants appointed (at least jointly) in women’s studies; women’s and gender studies; women’s, gender, and Women’s Studies and Sexuality Studies in Conversation
Consolidation (business) · Context (archaeology) · Enthusiasm · Feminism · Human sexuality · Lesbian · Political science · Queer · Sociology · Transgender · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |