De auteurs gaan in op de rol van theorievorming in vrouwenstudies en op de verhouding tussen vrouwenstudies en politiek activisme. Bevat: Retrofit: Gender, cultural and class exclusions in American Studies/ door VeVe Clark: Ethocentrism/Essentialism: the failure of ontological cure/ door Marilyn Frye: Maternal Presumption: the personal politics of reproductive rights/ door Alice Adams: Sex, gender and same-sex marriage/ door Peggy Pascoe: The virtual anthropologist/ door Kate Weston: How History matters: complicating the catagories of 'western' and 'non-western' feminisms/ door Mrinalini Sinha: Bringing it all home to the bacon: a Ph.D. (Packinghouse Daughter) examines her legacy/ door Cheri Register: Blood ties and blasphemy: American Indian women and the problem of history/ door Kathryn Shanley: Ella que tiene jefes y no los ve, se queda en cueros: Chican intellectuals (re)creating revolution/ door Eden Torres: Being queer, being black: living out in Afro-American studies/ door Rhonda William: Learning to think and teach about race and gender despite graduate school: obstacles women of color graduate students face in sociology/ door Mary Romero: Anger, resentment and the place of mind in academia/ door Diana Velez: Stupidity 'decontructed'/ door Joanna Kadi: To challenge academic individualism/ door Sharon Doherty