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Abstracts for
August 31 , 2003
Women and Development Studies....
Shifting Centres and Moving Margins.....
Gender Studies: Interdisciplinary ......
Constructing Feminist Knowledge....
Gender, Information Technology......
Shifting, Dismantling, Erecting ......
A Different Imagination
Documentary Film
Reflections in the Looking Glass...
"Not without meh man"
Mirror Mirror: A feminist examination.....
Ambivalent aspirations: Assertion .....
Gender and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean: ....
Governance, Leadership
& Decision Making.....

Constitutional Reform in the Caribbean

The Caribbean Experience.....
When the Post-Colonial State Bureaucratizes.....
Feminisms, Gender Studies, Activism....
“Feminisms, Gender Studies, Activism: The Elusive Triad”
 
The provocative title of this paper raises questions about the relationship between three dynamic components of contemporary feminist politics. The neutral image of the triad , “ a group or set of three” does not adequately acknowledge the evolutionary nature of the history of the relationship between these elements ( activism/feminism precedes gender studies), nor their dynamic inter-relationship towards a shared vision of social emancipation.

The paper argues that Gender Studies uprooted from its grounding in feminist activism will falter and become a self-serving adjunct of the academic status quo; that the synergy between activism, feminism and gender studies is not essentially elusive for the project directed to ending sexist oppression and exploitation, thus engendering women’s empowerment and transformation in society.

 

 
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