Theories of Women's Studies

Women’s Studies investigates the world from women-centred perspectives which cross the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines. Thus every issue, every question is material for Women’s Studies. The worldwide development of Women’s Studies during the 1970s and 1980s presented a radical challenge to the male-centred bias which dominated knowledge-making at the time.

Originally published in 1983, in this book feminist scholars discuss the assumptions and aims of Women’s Studies, its conn...