Feminist (Re)visions utilizes the study of space and place—which extends through sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and area studies, historical perspectives, and philosophy—as a paradigm for cross-disciplinary inquiry. Noting that both the study of space/place and feminism are transected by the lines of spacial, conceptual, and ontological disintegration in contemporary academia, Gail Currie and Celia Rothenberg have culled a collection of writings drawn together from feminist scholars across several disciplines to address three questions: how are subjects constituted in relation to the spaces and places they occupy; how are those spaces and places in turn negotiated and transformed; and how are feminists actively constructing new visions of the female subject in the context of the postmodern academic terrain? This work sets the stage for the development of a productive feminist praxis in an academic world some fear has been relativized and depoliticized by the postmodern turn.
Contributions by: Mary Armstrong, Mimi Arnstein, Jessica Barkley Blaustein, Rhiannon Bury, Melinda Yuen-ching Chen, Shu-Ju Ada Cheng, Camilla Gibb, Jacqueline McGibbon, Liz Millward, Henrietta Moore, Banu Subramaniam, Anne Vallely, Michael Witmore