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Feminist Frictions:
The Field of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Digital Archive:
Race & Racism in the Institutionalization of the Field

Accompanying Sally Kitch’s Feminist Frictions essay, “Forged in Fire: Constructing Women’s Studies Knowledge for Social Engagement, 1979-2019“

Other Digital Archive Pages:

Interdisciplinarity & Institutionalization

Academic Articles

Albrecht, Lisa, Shelley Bannister, Kathryn Brooks, Trisha Franzen, Lois Rita Helmbold, Minrose Gwyn, Ruth Hubbard, Demetria Iazzetto, Phyllis Mannocchi, Shane Phelan, Rivka Polatnick, Margaret Randall, Laura Sanders, & Carolyn Woodward. (1990). “Racism at the NWSA: A Letter from White Women.” off our backs 20(10): 17–18.

Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. (2010). “Critical Race Black Feminism: A ‘Jurisprudence of Resistance’ and the Transformation of the Academy.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 35(4): 810-820. 

Allen, Ann Taylor. (1996). “The March Through the Institutions: Women’s studies in the United States and West and East Germany, 1980-1995.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 22(1): 152-180.

Aptheker, Bettina. (1981). “‘Strong is What We Make Each Other’: Unlearning Racism within Women’s Studies.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 9(4): 13-16.

Bastian Duarte & Ángela Ixkic. (2012). “From the Margins of Latin American Feminism: Indigenous and Lesbian Feminisms.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38(1): 153-78. 

Bell-Scott, Patricia, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, & Jacqueline Jones Royster. (1991). “The Promise and Challenge of Black Women’s Studies: A Report from the Spelman Conference, May 25-26, 1990.” NWSA Journal 3(2): 281–288.

Brewer, Rose M. (2011). “Black Women’s Studies: From Theory to Transformative Practice.” Socialism and Democracy 21(1):146-56.

Brown-Glaude, Winnifred R. (2010). “But Some of Us are Brave: Black Women Faculty Transforming the Academy.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 35(4): 801-809.

Carroll, Berenice & Sue Mansfield. (1993). “Report from NWSA.” NWSA Journal 5(1): 145–149.

Christian, Barbara. (1989). “But Who Do You Really Belong To—Black Studies or Women’s Studies?” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 17(1-2): 17-23.

Cho, Sumi, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, & Leslie McCall. (2013). “Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38(4): 785-810. 

Clarke, Cheryl . (2010). “But Some of Us are Brave and the Transformation of the Academy: Transformation?” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 35(4): 779-788. 

Collins, Patricia Hill. (1989). “The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14(4): 745–773.

Coogan-Gehr, Kelly. (2011). “The Politics of Race in U.S. Feminist Scholarship: An Archaeology.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 37(1): 83–107.

duCille, Ann. (1994). “The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 19(3): 591–629.

Franklin, V. P. (2002). “Hidden in Plain View: African American Women, Radical Feminism, and the Origins of Women’s Studies Programs, 1967-1974.” The Journal of African American History, 87(4): 433-445.

Gonzalez, Maria. (2002). “This Bridge Called NWSA.” NWSA Journal 14(1):71-81.

Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. (1992). “Black Women’s Studies: The Interface of Women’s Studies and Black Studies.” Phylon 49(1/2):

Laslett, Barbara, and Johanna Brenner. (2000). “Twenty-First-Century Academic Feminism in the United States: Utopian Visions and Practical Actions.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 25(4): 1231-1235. 

Lee, Valerie. (2010). “Anthologizing and Theorizing Black Women’s Studies.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 35(4): 788-796.

May, Vivian M. (2002). “Disciplinary Desires and Undisciplined Daughters: Negotiating the Politics of a Women’s Studies Doctoral Education.” NWSA Journal 14(1): 134-159.

Mihesuah, Devon A. (2000). “A Few Cautions at the Millennium on the Merging of Feminist Studies with American Indian Women’s Studies.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 25(4): 1247-1251. 

Nash, Jennifer Christine. (2013). “Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love-Politics, and Post-Intersectionality.” Meridians 11(2):1-24.

Reviere, Rebecca, & Anita Nahal. (2005). “Finding Our Place: Women’s Studies at Howard University.” NWSA Journal, 17(2): 150-155.

Rooks, Noliwe M. (2000). “Like Canaries in the Mines: Black Women’s Studies at the Millennium.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 25(4): 1209-1211. 

Ruby, Jennie, Farar Elliott, & Carol Anne Douglas. (1990). “NWSA: Troubles Surface at Conference.” off our backs 20(8): 1–16.

Smith, Barbara. (1980). “Racism and Women’s Studies.” Frontiers 5(1): 48-49.

Wall, Cheryl A. (2010). “On Dolls, Presidents, and Little Black Girls.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 35(4): 796-801. 

Williams, Erica Lorraine. (2013). “Women’s Studies and Sexuality Studies at HBCUs: The Audre Lorde Project at Spelman College.” Feminist Studies 39(2): 520-525.

Zinn, Maxine Baca, Lynn Weber Cannon, Elizabeth Higginbotham, and Bonnie Thornton Dill. (1986). “The Costs of Exclusionary Practices in Women’s Studies.” Signs: Journal of women in culture and society, 11(2): 290-303. 

Books

Stanlie M. James, Frances Smith Foster, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, eds. Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women’s Studies. AK.

Hobson, Jannell. 2016. Are All the Women Still White? Rethinking Race, Expanding Feminisms. SUNY Press.

Hull, Gloria T., Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith, eds. 1982. But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women’s Studies. Feminist Press.

Nash, Jennifer. 2018. Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality. Duke University Press.

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