Dedication
Detailed contents, authors & artists included
I. Welcome
Acknowledgements
About the cover
Preface: Context, Organization, and Non-traditional publishing
Introduction: Fifty Years of Women’s Studies
II. Section one: The History of Gender, Women, and Sexuality 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
III. Section two: The Praxis of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
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
IV. Section three: Doing Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
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)
V. Section four: Wrapping Things Up
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
Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies by Julie Shayne is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.