Women's Studies

Karen Atkinson, Sarah Oerton and Gill Plain

Feminisms On Edge seeks to embrace a wide spectrum of feminist debate both inside and outside the academy. It is concerned to reach out from the conventional definitions of women's studies by stressing the plurality of feminist ideas and practices, as defined and lived by many different women in local, national and international contexts. Arising from the Ninth International Women's Studies Network Association Conference, the papers in this inter-disciplinary volume are concerned with power and national identity; texts and discourses; and language and culture. The volume is in part an engagement with issues which unsettle some tenets of feminist orthodoxy. Together, contributors represent the rich diversity of women's lives and voices and include activists, academics and researchers engaged in front-line political, cultural, corporeal and linguistic debates.

Feminisms On Edge grapples with current developments in feminist research, theory and practice. It offers a timely and critical intervention into a number of strategic areas. Rather than remain static in the face of on-going change, this volume celebrates the past, consolidates the present and moves forward in exciting new ways, emphasising feminism's position at the cutting edge of contemporary intellectual debate.

Karen Atkinson, Sarah Oerton and Gill Plain have all taught, researched and published widely in the fields of language, literature and communication studies, sociology and women's studies. They were part of the team that co-organised the Ninth International Women's Studies Network Association Conference held at the University of Glamorgan in South Wales in July 1996.

ISBN 1-899025-14-6 £16.95

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