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Dedication
Detailed contents, authors & artists included
Acknowledgements
About the cover
Preface: Context, Organization, and Non-traditional publishing
Introduction: Fifty Years of Women’s Studies
1. The History of San Diego State University’s Women’s Studies Program
Photos from SDSU library exhibit
2. The Praxis of Africana Women’s Studies: Lessons from Clark Atlanta University
3. The Enduring Struggle: Findings from the History of Women’s and Gender Studies in the Global South
Untitled (student art)
4. Women's-Gender-Sexuality-Feminist Studies: The Politics of Departmental Naming
5. An Annotated Bibliography on the History of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies in the Americas
Students answer: Why Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies?
6. Why GWSS Still Matters
7. Bridging the Academy and the Community, One Breath at a Time: The Healing Power of Africana Women’s Studies
8. WGS Changes Lives: A Meditation on Feminist Praxis
9. Teaching Women’s & Gender Studies: Teaching Tools for Life
10. From Theory to Content: Feminist Publishing Makes Women’s Studies Powerful
Stifle (student art)
11. The Struggle Continues: Women of Color Faculty and Institutional Barriers
En La Lucha (student art)
12. Turning a Feminist Lens on Administration
13. Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies: A Degree and Perspective for ‘Essential Workers’ in the 21st Century
14. Writing Social Justice: Thoughts from a WGSS Major
Not Your Beauty (student art)
15. Gender Studies Work at the University of Ghana
16. Parar para Avanzar: Feminist Activism in 2019 Latin American Mobilizations
Marginalized Cage (student art)
17. Disrupting Systems of Oppression by Re-centering Indigenous Feminisms
18. No One is Disposable: Ecofeminism and Climate Crisis
19. Women's & Gender Studies at Community Colleges: Breakthroughs and Challenges
Hometown (student poetry)
20. The Power of Words: A Discussion of Chanel Miller’s Know My Name
Sins of the Skinny Body (student art)
Conclusion: Damn Straight We Persisted
Artist statement: Interior Intimacies Series
A Lesbian Marriage (student art)
Kitchen Top (student art)
About the authors
The authors, in pictures
About our programs
Praise
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Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Copyright © 2020 by Julie Shayne is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.