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Subject: [BalkanWomen] TALKING FEMINIST INSTITUTIONS Interviews with leading
European scholars by Eniko Magyari-Vincze
> TALKING FEMINIST INSTITUTIONS
> Interviews with leading European scholars
> by Eniko Magyari-Vincze
>
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> Through this book the author speaks about political relations within and
> outside the academia. She affirms the authority and responsibility of
> feminism to deal critically with the power regimes inherent to the
> discursive and social practices that shape our thinking and acting, both
in
> everyday life, and in scientific production.
>
> This is a book about scholars talking on the academic institutionalisation
> of feminism. It is meant to prove that feminist institutions as texts are
> talking about the larger academic and social-political environment. It is
a
> place of dialogue between dialogues, initiated by an Eastern European
> scholar talking to representatives of (Western) feminist institutions.
> Eventually, it is a personal way of talking with the "other", while
> referring to "us", i.e. of considering the need of feminism in the
> (Romanian) academia in the light of several (institutional and personal)
> experiences across borders.
>
> The volume consists of a forward on travelling across Western academic
> feminism and an epilogue on the need for feminist studies in Romania, of
> introductory and concluding remarks on the interpretation of the
interviews,
> and of the interviews with scholars from The Netherlands and from Great
> Britain, structured in three chapters.
> Chapter one: Feminist Studies - What Difference Does it Make?
> Women's Studies as a Politics of Difference (Rosi BRAIDOTTI)
> Centering on Gender Equality Worldwide (Barbara EINHORN)
> On the Bridge Between Science and Policy Making (Mieke VERLOO)
> Organizing Across Disciplinary Boundaries (Carol KEDWARD)
> Chapter two: Producing Feminist Knowledge
> Gendering Politics (Joyce OUTSHOORN)
> The Construction of Scientific Knowledge - A Feminist View (Ineke KLINGE)
> The Cross-Cultural Understanding of Reproduction (Maya UNNITHAN)
> Empowering Information (Lin PUGH)
> Chapter three: Spaces of Inclusion
> New Deconstructivist Projects: Masculinity and Gay Studies (Stefan DUDINK)
> Widening Education Towards the Margins (Gerry HOLLOWAY)
> Re-Approaching Multiculturalism (Marjolein VERBOOM)
>
> Altogether the interviews talk about an imagined community, which
transcends
> national, disciplinary, sexual, generational, social boundaries and is
> shaped by debates and internal diversity, and also by shared experiences
and
> a sense of consensus. They confess that feminist institutions are not only
> places where knowledge is produced, but also ways of making a difference
and
> causing change in every aspect of the unjust (academic, but not only)
order.
> Or, more precisely, they are the medium where the actors create another
> knowledge about knowledge, or another thinking about scientific thinking,
or
> other subject position for knowledge producers. That knowledge, that way
of
> thinking, and that subject position are centred on the recognition of the
> social embeddedness of science, including the awareness of the gendered
> assumptions and consequences of sciencing as an instrument of empowerment
> and subordination.
>
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