(Re) Producing Gendered Knowledges: How Institutional Ecologies and 'Supple' Objects Influenced Academic Understandings of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the U.S.
This essay examines how researchers' differing definitions of core categories of analysis in women's and gender studies have yielded a wide variety of knowledge about gender, women, and sexuality across research institutions. The paper draws on historical records from five women's and gender studies...
| Publicado en: | Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 4 - 5 |
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Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
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