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When Women Ask the Questions:

Creating Women's Studies in America
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In When Women Ask the Questions, Marilyn Boxer traces the successes and failures of women's studies, examines the field's enduring impact on the world of higher education, and concludes that the rise of women's studies has challenged the university in the same way that feminism has challenged society at large. Drawing on her experiences as a historian, feminist, academic administrator, and former chair of a women's studies program, Boxer observes that by working for justice–and for changes necessary to make the attainment of justice a practical possibility–women's studies ensures that women are heard in the processes and places where knowledge is created, taught, and preserved. The intellectual transformation behind the emergence of women's studies, Boxer concludes, is one of historic proportions. Like other great moments in human experience, it has given rise to a flowering of art, literature, and science, and to the challenging of previously accepted authorities of text and tradition.


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Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction Speaking of Women's Studies

one Feminist Advocacy, Scholarly Inquiry, and the Experience of Women

two Constituting a New Field of Knowledge

three Challenging the Traditional Curriculum

four Changing the Classroom

five Embracing Diversity

six The Quest for Theory

seven ""Knowledge for What?""

eight Critics Inside and Outside the Academy

nine The ""Feminist Enlightenment"" and the University

Notes

Bibliography

Index

""Marilyn Boxer brings her vast experience as a founding feminist scholar, women's studies chair, and university provost to her definitive rendering of the history of women's studies within the larger context of late-twentieth-century U.S. higher education.""

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