A Journey into Women's Studies

Introduction PART I: CROSSING INTERDISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES 1. From the Ground Up; Cynthia Enloe 2. My Women's Studies Journey; Maithreyi Krishnaraj 3. Reclaiming my Education: A Passage to Consciousness; Nawar Al-Hassan Golley 4. Oppositional Imaginations: Multiple Lineages of feminist Scholarship; Uma Chakravarti 5. From Feminist Activist to Professor; Drude Dahlerup 6. My Tryst with Women's Studies; Rekha Pande PART II: ARTICULATING REGIONAL EXPERIENCES 7. Being a Woman and doing Gender in Sweden; Anita Nyberg 8. Mainstreaming Women's Studies in Higher Education – The Case of Vietnam; Thai thi Ngoc Du 9. My Journey in Chinese Women's Studies; Paul S. Ropp 10. Feminism and Women's Studies in Japan; Ronni Alexander 11. Working on the History of Chinese Women: My Story; Clara Wing-chung Ho 12. Feminism, Women's Studies and the Women's Movement in Canada: Two Canadian Perspectives; Marilyn Porter and Caroline Andrew PART III: TRANSNATIONAL AND DIASPORIC EXPERIENCES 13. Learning from Women for Women; Tahera Aftab 14. My Life before and after Women's Studies- Insook; Myongji University 15. A Personal Odyssey toward 'Feminist Curiosity';Hülya Adak 16. The Personal is (still) Political: Feminist Reflections on a Transformative Journey; Simona Sharoni 17. State Feminism, Feminists and Women's Studies in Sweden; Mona Eliasson 18. My Life and Women's Studies; Geraldine Forbes