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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Improper subjects? An inquiry into social differences as knowledge and pedagogy in women's studies Abstract: This dissertation studies questions of subject formation in women's studies and attends to the role and function of social differences (race and sexuality) in conflicts of the field. This study is organized by two distinct but related sites of inquiry. The first part studies discourses of differences, particularly race and sexuality, and traces how these circulate within the field of women's studies. It argues that race and sexuality are signifiers of difference in discourses of knowledge that exceed social identities. For example, I investigate the ways that race and sexuality are invoked and figure in conversations constitutive of women's studies. These concern its self-definition, history, location in the university, commitment to interdisciplinarity, as well as questions of epistemology and pedagogy. I also take differences to be central to the histories of learning of those involved in the field. The second part of this study works with interviews in which faculty and students speak of their experiences of learning and the attachments they make to knowledges about race and sexuality within women's studies. |
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