Women's studies on the edge / edited by Joan Wallach Scott. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2008. - 223 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"A differences book"--Prelim.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-210) and index.

The impossibility of women's studies / Wendy Brown -- Feminism, inst itutionalism, and the idiom of failure / Robyn Wiegman -- Teaching and research in unavailable intersections / Afsaneh Najmabadi -- Feminism, democracy, and empire : Islam and the war of terror / Saba Mahmood -- T ransfeminism and the future of gender / Gayle Salamon -- Discipline and vanish : feminism, the resistance to theory, and the politics of cultu ral studies / Ellen Rooney -- Whither Black women's studies : interview / Beverly Guy-Sheftall with Evelynn M. Hammonds -- Success and its fai lures / Biddy Martin.

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