Why Women's Studies AND . . .
ANTHROPOLOGY?
"Feminists in anthropology set out to correct male bias--which simply reflected, after all, sexist presumptions in the larger society . . ."
-Micaela di Leonardo |
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PHILOSOPHY?
"Thought is universal, but philosophy is local--temporally, culturally, and historically specific."
-Marilyn Frye |
HISTORY?
"The insights of women's history have to a considerable extent been effectively ghettoized. . . . Women's history has sold a lot of books but it remains on the periphery of the male historical establishment's vision."
-Jane Lewis |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE?
"When women are mobilized into revolutionary movements or organize themselves as feminists, their legal and economic status may improve, but their access to political power remains limited."
-Jane S. Jaquette |
PSYCHOLOGY?
"Jean Baker Miller...argues that women play a human role that no other suppressed group plays: women are entwined with men in intimate and intense relationships in the family where the human mind is formed."
-Mary Roth Walsh |
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SOCIOLOGY?
"[The feminist critique's] basic message--that by using its own standards of science sociology could be easily and incontrovertibly shown to be riddled with the values and assumptions of sexism which led it either to misrepresent or render invisible the lives and experiences of women and girls--still resounds in the discipline."
-Liz Stanley |
THEOLOGY?
"Work in feminist theology and women's spirituality directly challenges the patriarchal worldview enshrined in religious texts and traditions."
-Carol P. Christ |
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ENGLISH?
"An essential task as critics is to continue to take apart our own privilege; to find ways to hold the tensions, sustain the ambiguities, ultimately celebrate the complex knowledge that truth is multifaceted, multicolored, appears in many guises."
-Mary Ellen S. Capek |
