Is Academic Feminism Dead?: Theory in Practice

by Social Justice Group of the Center for A

Book Overview

What role does theory play in academia today? How can feminist theory be made more relevant to the very real struggles undertaken by women of all professions, races, and sexual orientation? How can it be directed into more effective social activism, and how is theory itself a form of practice?
Feminist theory and political activism need not--indeed cannot--be distinct and alienated from one another. To reconcile the gulf between word and deed,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814727050
• ISBN13: 9780814727058
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"