"Isn't just being here political enough?" Feminist action-oriented research as a challenge to graduate women's studies

Feminist Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 333-346

  Coates, Jacky ^a   Dodds, Michelle ^a   Jensen, Jodi ^a  

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EID: 0032089340     PISSN: 00463663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3178701     Document Type: Article

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1. In this essay we refer to communities as groups outside of academia in order to stress the need for women's studies programs to take a step back in terms of maintaining control over research topics, research methods, and research outcomes. We maintain that women's studies also needs to acknowledge the work of feminist activists outside the university by taking a step forward in terms of offering financial support and access to resources. Ultimately, the goal of action-oriented research is to make connections between university communities and communities outside academia.
2. Patricia Ann Lather, Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy with/in the Postmodern (New York: Routledge, 1991), 56.
3. Robert E. Rosenwein and Donald T. Campbell, "Mobilization to Achieve Collective Action and Democratic Majority/Plurality Amplification," Journal of Social Issues 48, no. 2 (1992): 125.
4. bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (New York: Routledge, 1994), 61, 70.
5. Although women enter undergraduate programs in numbers equal to men, their dropout rates are higher at each level of the academic hierarchy, so that fewer tenured faculty are women. In addition, women's participation continues to be severely limited in specific traditionally male-dominated fields.
6. Linda Carty, "Black Women in Academia: A Statement from the Periphery," in Unsettling Relations: The University as a Site of Feminist Struggles, ed. Himani Bannerji et al. (Toronto, Canada: Women's Press, 1991), 15.