{"product_id":"minds-of-our-own-wendy-robbins-9781554580378","title":"Minds of Our Own: Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women's Studies in Canada and Qu饕ec, 1966-76","description":"\u003cp\u003e This book of personal essays by over forty women and men who founded women's studies in Canada and Qu (c)bec explores feminist activism on campus in the pivotal decade of 1966-76. The essays document the emergence of women's studies as a new way of understanding women, men, and society, and they challenge some current preconceptions about \"second wave\" feminist academics. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The contributors explain how the intellectual and political revolution begun by small groups of academics--often young, untenured women--at universities across Canada contributed to social progress and profoundly affected the way we think, speak, behave, understand equality, and conceptualize the academy and an academic career. A contextualizing essay documents the social, economic, political, and educational climate of the time, and a concluding chapter highlights the essays' recurring themes and assesses the intellectual and social transformation that their authors helped set in motion. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The essays document the appalling sexism and racism some women encounter in seeking admission to doctoral studies, in hiring, in pay, and in establishing the legitimacy of feminist perspectives in the academy. They reveal sources of resistance, too, not only from colleagues and administrators but from family members and from within the self. In so doing they provide inspiring examples of sisterly support and lifelong friendship. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wendy Robbins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1554580374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781554580378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wilfrid Laurier University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2008 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2008 pg. 150","brand":"Wendy Robbins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44584080539903,"sku":"9781554580378","price":48.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d0e2d1a1-2e06-41d9-860c-a4af6dbf6858.jpg?v=1701885199","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/minds-of-our-own-wendy-robbins-9781554580378","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}