Download or read book The Impact of Feminist Research in the Academy written by Christie Farnham and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1987-12-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... comprehensive, well-written, and useful... A must... " -- Choice "... interdisciplinary... with exciting contributions from the humanities and the social and natural sciences." -- Quest "... a treasure of rich and challenging scholarship that covers many fields... " -- Religious Education "The helpful insights from a wide range of disciplines -- Economics to Literature -- accumulated here in a focused manner should be useful to all scholars interested in Women's Studies." -- Kathryn Allen Rabuzzi, Syracuse University, Religious Studies Review "... exciting, state-of-the-art essays across a wide variety of fields." -- Gender & Society Nationally recognized scholars assess the impact of over a decade of research on women. Originally intended merely as a corrective -- filling in a missing part of the story -- the cumulative effect of this body of scholarship is to pose paradigm shifts for the traditional disciplines.