The future of a retheorized women's studies in an increasingly institutionalized context.

Introduction: On Location / Robyn Wiegman 1
I: Histories of the Present
Feminist Cultural Literacy: Translating Differences, Cannibal Options / Sneja Gunew 47
Transnational Practices and Interdisciplinary Feminist Scholarship: Refiguring Women's and Gender Studies / Caren Kaplan and Inderpal Grewal 66
Notes from the (Non)Field: Teaching and Theorizing Women of Color / Rachel Lee 82
The Progress of Gender: Whither "Women"? / Robyn Wiegman 106
The Present and Our Past: Simone de Beauvoir, Descartes, and Presentism in the Historiography of Feminism / Jane O. Newman 141
II: Institutional Pedagogies (A Forum)
Contending with Disciplinarity / Kathleen M. Blee 177
The Past in Our Present: Theorizing the Activist Project of Women's Studies / Bonnie Zimmerman 183
Rethinking Collectivity: Chicago Feminism, Athenian Democracy, and the Consumer University / Judith Kegan Gardiner 191
From Politics to Professionalism: Cultural Change in Women's Studies / Jean C. Robinson 202
Battle-Weary Feminists and Supercharged Grrls: Generational Differences and Outsider Status in Women's Studies Administration / Devoney Looser 211
Taking Account of Women's Studies / Diane Elam 218
Nice Work, If You Can Get It---and If You Can't? Building Women's Studies Without Tenure Lines / Robyn R. Warhol 224
The Politics of "Excellence" / Jeanette McVicker 233
III. In the Shadow of Capital
Academic Housework: Women's Studies and Second Shifting / Dale M. Bauer 245
(In)Different Spaces: Feminist Journeys from the Academy to the Mall / Sivagami Subbaraman 258
Analogy and Complicity: Women's Studies, Lesbian/Gay Studies, and Capitalism / Miranda Joseph 267
Institutional Success and Political Vulnerability: A Lesson in the Importance of Allies / Marcia Westkott 293
Life After Women's Studies: Graduates and the Labor Market / Maryanne Dever, Denise Cuthbert, and Lindsey Pollak 312
IV: Critical Classrooms
Strangers in the Classroom / Sabina Sawhney 341
"Women of Color in the U.S.": Pedagogical Reflections on the Politics of "the Name" / Minoo Moallem 368
Negotiating the Politics of Experiential Learning in Women's Studies: Lessons from the Community Action Project / Nancy A. Naples 383
What Should Every Women's Studies Major Know? Reflections on the Capstone Seminar / Susan Stanford Friedman 416
Subversive Couplings: On Antiracism and Postcolonialism in Graduate Women's Studies / Laura E. Donaldson, Anne Donadey, and Jael Silliman 438
Afterword: Continuity and Change in Women's Studies / Gloria Bowles 457
Bibliography: Locating Feminism 465
Contributors 491
Index 499