✓-ydm'10A. .. a JJ c L E u^ 20t5? (PQL ale MY/omen's Studies: A View 1 , O3 _ I iq) from the Margins Beverly Guy-Sheftall There is a growing body of work that assesses the field of Women's Studies, now almost 40 years old, if we use as a starting point...
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✓-ydm'10A. .. a JJ c L E u^ 20t5? (PQL ale MY/omen's Studies: A View 1 , O3 _ I iq) from the Margins Beverly Guy-Sheftall There is a growing body of work that assesses the field of Women's Studies, now almost 40 years old, if we use as a starting point 1969, the launching of the first program at San Diego State University. I'm referring to Women's Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics; Women's Studies On Its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change (Wiegman, 2002); Troubling Women's Studies: Pasts, Present, and Possibilities (Braithwaite and Heald, 2005); and my own consultant's report, The Status of Women's Studies, 1969-1992, which the Ford Foundation commissioned and was pub- lished in 1995 as Women's Studies: A Retrospective (Guy-Sheftall, 19956).1 Among the retrospectives I probed for this essay, Elizabeth Kennedy and Agatha Beins' (2005) anthology, Women's Studies for the Future, raised the most compelling questions for me: What is the subject of Wo
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