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ERIC Number: EJ517227
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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The Risks and Responsibilities of Feminist Academic Journals.
McDermott, Patrice
NWSA Journal, v6 n3 p373-83 Fall 1994
Highlights the growth of feminist academic publications, and discusses the motivation and purpose of these publications in constructing a legitimate body of scholarship on women while trying to legitimize themselves within the academic institution. The paper briefly explores the hostile political environment and examines how the field of women's studies has progressed through the proliferation of these journals. (GR)
Descriptors: Activism, Civil Rights, Colleges, Feminism, Political Attitudes, Publications, Social Change, Universities, Womens Studies
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Feminist Press; Feminist Scholarship
Note: Revised version of a keynote address presented at the NWSA Conference on Publishing Feminist Scholarship (Durham, NJ, October 30, 1993). Journal availability: National Women's Studies Assn., Ablex Publishing Corp., 355 Chestnut St., Norwood, NJ 07648.