Women's Studies in the 1990s

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Doing Things Differently? A Context for Women’s Studies in the Next Decade

   • Joanna de Groot, Mary Maynard

   Pages 1-17

3. Investing Ourselves: Use of Researcher Personal Response in Feminist Methodology

   • Catherine Kirkwood

   Pages 18-39

4. ‘Woman-Centred Politics’: A Concept for Exploring Women’s Political Perceptions

   • Anne-Marie Barry

   Pages 40-61

5. Cross Purposes: Literature, (In)discipline and Women’s Studies

   • Trev Broughton

   Pages 62-85

6. Problems of Theory and Method in Feminist History

   • Uta C. Schmidt

   Pages 86-109

7. Looking from the ‘Other’ Side: Is Cultural Relativism a Way Out?

   • Fatmagül Berktay

   Pages 110-131

8. Equality and Difference: Approaches to Feminist Theory and Politics

   • Christine Kulke

   Pages 132-148

9. Facing the 1990s: Problems and Possibilities for Women’s Studies

   • Joanna de Groot, Mary Maynard

   Pages 149-178

10. Back Matter

    Pages 179-182

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This interdisciplinary collection is concerned with important theoretical and methodological issues facing women's studies. Drawing on feminist theory and politics it addresses a range of questions raised for women's studies by work conducted in history, literature, politics and sociology. The editors provide a context for these debates in their introductory essay which gives an overview of the development of women's studies and reflects on its current position. In their concluding chapter they also suggest a framework from which women's studies might move forward.

• development
• feminism
• methodology
• perception
• politics
• quality
• research
• sociology
• women
• work

• University of York, UK

  Joanna Groot

• Centre for Women’s Studies, University of York, UK

  Mary Maynard

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