A Feminist Perspective in the Academy: The Difference It MakesElizabeth Langland, Walter R. Gove University of Chicago Press, 1983 - 162 pages The advent of women's studies has brought a feminist perspective into the academy—but has it made a difference there? Has it transformed our curriculum; has it reshaped our materials; has it altered our knowledge? In the essays collected here, nine distinguished scholars provide an overview of the differences the feminist perspective makes—and could make—in scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Carefully documented and judiciously critical, these essays inform the reader about developments in feminist scholarship in literary criticism, the performing arts, religion, history, political science, economics, anthropology, psychology, and sociology. The authors point out achievements of lasting value and indicate how these might become an integral part of the various disciplines. |
Contents
Editors Notes | 1 |
The Difference It Makes | 7 |
New Directions for Feminist Criticism in Theatre and the Related Arts | 25 |
The Feminist Critique in Religious Studies | 52 |
What the Womens Movement Has Done to American History | 67 |
Speaking From Silence Women and the Science of Politics | 86 |
How the Study of Women Has Restructured the Discipline of Economics | 101 |
Anthropology and the Study of Gender | 110 |
Changing Conceptions of Men and Women A Psychologists Perspective | 130 |
Women in Sociological Analysis New Scholarship Versus Old Paradigms | 149 |
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