Knowing Feminisms: On Academic Borders, Territories and Tribes

Knowing Feminisms looks at feminism as a vital source of new knowledge and new ways of working throughout a range of disciplines. It also scrutinizes the sometimes highly problematic forms its presence within academia can take. The contributors, all well-known feminist academics, discuss the epistemological and ontological `borderlands′ that feminisms inhabit, which although within, still remain `other′ to, the academy. The book addresses fundamentally important questions such as: Should feminists work within traditional disciplines or abandon them in favour of Women′s Studies? Is the idea of feminist pedagogy as `empowerment′ actually one which de-skills? Does the feminist transformation of some academic disciplines