Feminist Frictions:
The Field of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Digital Archive:
Interdisciplinarity & Institutionalization
Accompanying Sally Kitch’s Feminist Frictions essay, “Forged in Fire: Constructing Women’s Studies Knowledge for Social Engagement, 1979-2019“
Other Digital Archive Pages:
Race & Racism in the Institutionalization of the Field
Academic Articles
Allen, Judith A., & Sally L. Kitch. (1998). “Disciplined by Disciplines? The Need for an Interdisciplinary Research Mission in Women’s Studies.” Feminist Studies, 24(2): 275-299.
Allen, Judith A. (1997). “Strengthening Women’s Studies in Hard Times: Feminism and Challenges of Institutional Adaptation.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 25(1/2): 358-387.
Bird, Elizabeth. (2002). “The Academic Arm of the Women’s Liberation Movement: Women’s Studies 1969–1999 in North America and the United Kingdom.” Women’s Studies International Forum, 25(1): 139-149.
Boxer, Marilyn J. (2000). “Unruly Knowledge: Women’s Studies and the Problem of Disciplinarity.” NWSA Journal 12(2): 119-29.
Boxer, Marilyn J. (1982). “For and About Women: The Theory and Practice of Women’s Studies in the United States.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 7(3): 661-695.
Brown, Wendy. (1997). “The Impossibility of Women’s Studies.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 9(3): 79-101.
Buker, Eloise. (2003). “Is Women’s Studies a Disciplinary or an Interdisciplinary Field of Inquiry?” NWSA Journal 15(1):73-93.
Catharine R. Stimpson, Joan N. Burstyn, Domna C. Stanton, & Sandra M. Whisler. (1975). “Editorial.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1(1): v-viii.
Connell, Raewyn. (2012). “Transsexual Women and Feminist Thought: Toward New Understanding and New Politics.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 37, no. 4: 857-881.
Coyner, Sandra. (1991). “Women’s Studies.” NWSA Journal, 3(3): 349-354.
Descarries, Francine. (2014). “Language is Not Neutral: The Construction of Knowledge in the Social Sciences and Humanities.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 39, no. 3: 564-569.
Dölling, Irene, & Sabine Hark. (2000). “She Who Speaks Shadow Speaks Truth: Transdisciplinarity in Women’s and Gender Studies.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 25(4): 1195-1198.
Echols, Alice. (2016). “Retrospective: Tangled Up in Pleasure and Danger.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 42, no. 1: 11-22.
Evans, Mary. (1982). “In Praise of Theory: The Case for Women’s Studies.” Feminist Review, 10(1): 61-74.
Gordon, Linda. (1975). “A Socialist View of Women’s Studies: A Reply to the Editorial, Volume 1, Number 1.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1(2): 559-566.
Groag Bell, Susan, & Mollie Schwartz Rosenhan. (1981). “A Problem in Naming: Women Studies: Women’s Studies?” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 6(3): 540-542.
Guttentag, Marcia, Lorelei R. Brush, Alice Ross Gold, Marnie W. Mueller, Sheila Tobias, & Marni Goldstein White. (1978). “Evaluating Women’s Studies: A Decision-Theoretic Approach.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 3(4): 884-890.
Haraway, Donna. (1990). “Reading Buchi Emecheta: Contests for Women’s Experience in Women’s Studies.” Women: A Cultural Review, 1(3): 240-255.
Hogan, Kristen. (2008). “Women’s Studies in Feminist Bookstores: ‘All the Women’s Studies Women Would Come In’.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 33(3): 595-621.
Howe, Florence. (1979). “Introduction: The First Decade of Women’s Studies.” Harvard Educational Review, 49(4): 413-421.
Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky. (2008). “Socialist Feminism: What Difference Did It Make to the History of Women’s Studies?” Feminist Studies, 34(3): 497-525.
Kessler-Harris, Alice . (1992). “The View from Women’s Studies.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 17(4): 794-805.
Kitch, Sally L., and Mary Margaret Fonow. (2012). “Analyzing Women’s Studies Dissertations: Methodologies, Epistemologies, and Field Formation.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 38(1): 99-126.
Romack, Katherine. (2011). “Women’s Studies in the ‘Post-Feminist’ University.” Feminist Formations, 23(1): 235-256.
Romero, Mary. (2000). “Disciplining the Feminist Bodies of Knowledge: Are We Creating or Reproducing Academic Structure?” NWSA Journal 12(2): 148-62.
Sahlin, Claire L. (2005). “Vital to the Mission and Key to Survival: Women’s Studies at Women’s Colleges.” NWSA Journal, 17(2): 164-170.
Schmitz, Betty. (1983). “Women’s Studies and Projects to Transform the Curriculum: A Current Status Report.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 11(3): 17.
Scully, Diana. (1996). “Overview of Women’s Studies: Organization and Institutional Status in US Higher Education.” NWSA Journal, 8(3): 122-128.
Shapiro, Judith. (1982). “’Women’s Studies’: A Note on the Perils of Markedness.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 7(3): 717-721.
Shohat, Ella. (2001). “Area Studies, Transnationalism, and the Feminist Production of Knowledge.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 26(4): 1269-72.
Shteir, Ann B. (1997). “The Women’s Studies Ph. D.: A Report from the Field.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 25(1/2): 388-403.
Thorne, Barrie. (2000). “A Telling Time for Women’s Studies.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 25(4): 1183-1187.
Tobias, Sheila. (1978). “Women’s Studies: Its Origins, Its Organization and Its Prospects.” Women’s Studies International Quarterly, 1(1): 85-97.
Whitehouse, Pamela. (2002). “Women’s Studies Online: An Oxymoron?” Women’s Studies Quarterly 30(¾): 209-225.
Wiegman, Robyn. (2005). “The Possibility of Women’s Studies.” In A. Beins and E.L. Kennedy (Eds.), Women’s Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics. Pp. 34-51. Rutgers University Press.
Wiegman, Robyn. (2001). “Women’s Studies: Interdisciplinary Imperatives, Again.” Feminist Studies, 27(2): 514-518.
Wood, Christine V. (2012). “Knowledge Practices, Institutional Strategies, and External Influences in the Making of an Interdisciplinary Field: Insights from the Case of Women’s and Gender Studies.” American Behavioral Scientist 56(10): 1301-25.
Wotipka, Christine Min, and Francisco O. Ramirez. (2004). “A Cross-National Analysis of the Emergence and Institutionalization of Women’s Studies Curricula.” 99th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California.
Yates, Gayle Graham. (1977). “Women’s Studies in Its Second Phase.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 5(½): 4-5.
Zalewski, Marysia. (2003). “Is Women’s Studies Dead?” Journal of International Women’s Studies, 4(2): 117-133.
Zimmerman, Bonnie. (2002). “Women’s Studies, NWSA, and the Future of the (Inter)Discipline.” NWSA Journal 14(1): viii-xviii.
Signs@40: Feminist Scholarship through Four Decades
Explore the history of Signs and its impact on the field through topic modeling, editorial commentaries, citation graphs.
Books
Aaron, Jane & Sylvia Walby. (Eds). (1991). Out of the Margins: Women’s Studies in the Nineties. Falmer Press.
Howe, Florence. (Ed). (2000). The Politics of Women’s Studies: Testimony From Thirty Founding Mothers. The Feminist Press.
Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky, & Agatha Beins, (Eds). (2005). Women’s Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics. Rutgers University Press.
Scott, Joan W. (Ed.). (2008 [1997]). Women’s Studies on the Edge. Duke University Press.
Wiegman, Robyn, (Ed). (2002). Women’s Studies on Its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change. Duke University Press.
Launching a Journal, Building an Interdisciplinary Field: The Legacies of Signs.
A conference for the thirtieth anniversary of the journal featuring former editors.