A Journey into Women’s Studies: Crossing Interdisciplinary Boundaries

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
From the Ground Up....Pages 15-27
My Women’s Studies Journey....Pages 28-40
Reclaiming My Education: A Passage to Consciousness....Pages 41-59
Oppositional Imaginations: Multiple Lineages of Feminist Scholarship....Pages 60-74
From Feminist Activist to Professor....Pages 75-100
My Tryst with Women’s Studies....Pages 101-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Being a Woman and Doing Gender in Sweden....Pages 125-145
Mainstreaming Women’s Studies in Higher Education — The Case of Vietnam....Pages 146-157
My Journey in Chinese Women’s Studies....Pages 158-173
Feminism and Women’s Studies in Japan....Pages 174-193
Working on the History of Chinese Women: My Story....Pages 194-211
Feminism, Women’s Studies and the Women’s Movement in Canada: Two Canadian Perspectives....Pages 212-228
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Learning from Women for Women....Pages 231-254
My Life Before and After Women’s Studies....Pages 255-265
A Personal Odyssey Towards “Feminist Curiosity”....Pages 266-278
The Personal Is (Still) Political: Feminist Reflections on a Transformative Journey....Pages 279-296
State Feminism, Feminists and Women’s Studies in Sweden....Pages 297-319
My Life and Women’s Studies....Pages 320-335
Back Matter....Pages 336-343