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"In this article, I draw upon a qualitative interview to offer an exploratory analysis of unacceptable male student conduct towards feminist academics. My informant encountered disrespect from anti-feminist male students, who subsequently maliciously accused her of disrespecting them. The men's complaint was accepted uncritically by the market-driven male Dean of Faculty in order to keep the customers happy. Given that anti-feminism makes feminist academics vulnerable to attack in market-driven UK higher education, I propose that feminists should start to campaign against unacceptable student conduct and subsequent victim-blaming by managers. One way in which we might start to do this is by deploying the interpretation 'contrapower sexual harassment' to conceptualise these experiences. Our campaign will not be universally welcomed in universities. Yet when have feminists been afraid of resistance?" (author's abstract)"Through activist scholarship Women's Studies has helped to support material and cultural change in the university and in social-change projects around the world. To strengthen Women's Studies social-change applications, this article stresses the importance of consciously integrating material and cultural knowledge and recognizing material feminism's historical, social relational, and local-to-global contributions. Applied activist knowledge in Women's Studies would be enhanced by more engagement in theoretical, classroom-based, and organizational work in regional and cross-border feminist social-change networks. Examples are drawn from the author's experiences teaching Women's Studies, her work in feminist theory construction in relation to historical analysis, and her activist research in U.S. urban areas, the U.S. Great Plains, and in regions of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. Emphases are placed on the grounding of gendered and intersecting hierarchies within our historical, global society; the connection of social-change frameworks to an exploration of democratically defined women's and community needs; and the preparation of applied activists for the work of developing new, redistributive models of inclusive regional and global development." (author's abstract)"This paper explores student resistance to feminist course content in social science courses cross-listed with women's studies as an example of social reproduction at work. Drawing on both interviews and anonymous student course evaluations, student resistance to feminism is examined from the layered perspectives of faculty, teaching assistants and students in these courses. The author argues that a regime of rationality still operates in the academy and is made evident when feminist course content is met with continual dismissal or disavowal." (author's abstract)"This article addresses the experience of exposure and the steps taken to ameliorate the dangers, explored through my personal observations in relation to my experiences working within British higher education for the past two decades. In particular I examine the interrelationships between my matrix of identity, my experiences and the structure and practices of higher education. The elements of this matrix include my class status, my parenting status, my gender and my sexuality, in particular the latter two. I discuss personal and, therefore, individual, actions yet these have not been developed and taken in isolation. The aim is to show how collective challenges can reduce structural discrimination at an individual level and aid the diminution of such structural oppressions. The methodological approach is one of auto/ biography informed by some lessons of political science." (author's abstract)"In much contemporary feminist discourse, the concepts of 'science' and 'gender' are
discredited as tools for analysing women's situation. Postmodernist debates criticise
the whole positivist enterprise that underlies 'the scientific method' and is reflected
in 'quantitative' and 'experimental' ways of knowing. Gender as a social construction
conceptually distinct from a 'biological' division into female and male has also been
called into question by postmodernist theories. This paper argues the desirability
of rehabilitating both the concepts of science and gender within a feminist discourse
committed to the practical liberation of women. Two current problems in women's health
care-cervical cancer screening and hormone replacement therapy-are examined as a case
study." (author's abstract)|