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Gender, Race, and Class

Bridging the Language-Structure Divide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Evelyn Nakano Glenn
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For social historians and historical sociologists working in the interdisciplinary fields of ethnic studies and women's studies, the challenges posed by poststructuralism are neither purely intellectual matters nor disciplinary quibbles. Rather, a concern with “rescuing political economy” from being washed away by the tide of poststructuralism is impelled by larger political commitments that transcend the academy.

Unlike mainstream disciplines, these fields historically have been connected to social movements dedicated to empowering people marginalized by reason of race, class, and/or gender. Poststructuralism has become a thorny issue in these fields: Many social science- and political economy-oriented scholars have come to feel, whether justifiably or not, that these fields are being “taken over” by literary, film, and cultural studies scholars.

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A Roundtable on Gender, Race, Class, Culture, and Politics: Where Do We Go from Here?
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Social Science History , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , Spring 1998 , pp. 29 - 38
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1998

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