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A Curious Act of Knowing? Obstacles around Politicality of Feminist Cognition and Feminist Traces within Academia

The idea of our presentation is to explore the problem-mirroring of Women's/Gender's Studies issues from two interrelating positions and perspectives, inside and outside academic system.We will endeavour to articulate certain paradoxes that emerge such as an increased interests by students in Women’s studies education vs. the lack of interest among academic authority to integrate the WS’s programme within the academic curricula ; ongoing popularity of feminist theory as trans-, cross-disciplinary theory vs. the trend of fostering ‘pure’ captured disciplines ; discrepancy between the desire for feminist knowledge among young scholars and lack of strength of feminist activism. We would like to discuss the question of how and to what extent the subversive aspects of feminist knowledge can be a resistant site in favour of social change, as well as to examine the feminist commitment for decolonizing knowledge crossing academia / alternative education dichotomy.

feminist pedagogy; feminist cognition; politics of women’s studies

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