- Author's : Gloria Bowles / Renate Duelli Klein
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 over the past decade presents a radical challenge to the male-centred bias which dominates knowledge-making.
In this book feminist scholars discuss the assumption and aims of Women’s Studies, its connections with the Women’s Movements, its research, its teaching and its emerging methodologies.
The contributors come from a rang of disciplines: the humanities, the social and natural sciences, and from international backgrounds, primrily the USA and Britain, Germany and Switzerland. They are united in working to develop a trans-disciplinary approach to the generation and distribution of knowledge and it is these new question and their implications that demonstrate the exciting potential of a feminist education in Women’s International quest for social change.