Title: A Personal and Epistemological Journey toward Women’s Studies
Abstract: Alice Ginsberg's invitation to write this chapter presented authors with a number of questions to which they were asked to respond. I have chosen to take an autobiographical approach to her request since personal experiences, rather than formal academic training, brought me into women's studies, changed my thinking about "how we know what we know," and shaped my life. My "participant observer" status as an American woman along with 30 years of reading and teaching about women's status worldwide continues to sustain my interest in a burgeoning field that has, since its inception, merged a political with an intellectual agenda. I hope the reader will indulge me in this approach, a ploy entirely in keeping with two of the fundamental insights of the U.S. feminist movement—that the personal is the political and that one's positionality shapes one's intellectual work.KeywordsSocial StudyWellesley CollegeSocial Study CurriculumReserve Officer Training CorpsFemale EditorThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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