Education Book Review

AUTHOR:  Anderson, Mary, et al, editor 

TITLE:  Doing Feminism:  Teaching and Research in the Academy. 

DATE:  1997  EDITION:     PAGES:  269  PRICE:  $24.95 

PUBLISHER AND ADDRESS:
	Women's Studies Program
	Michigan State University
	c/o MSU Press
	East Lansing, MI 48823-5202 

ISBN:  0-87013-472-8  LC:  97-15338  OCLC:

DESCRIPTION/EVALUATION:
	This collection of essays began as conference papers for the
1990 conference: "Revisioning Knowledge and the Curriculum:  Feminist 
Perspectives."  While some papers have been updated, most remain from 
that 1990 time frame.  In selecting these 17 papers from more than a
hundred presented, the editors strive to represent a spectrum of ages
and disciplines, to show the diversity of women's voices.  The price of
such diversity is a somewhat disjointed book, each chapter stands alone.
Some would be interesting to a new student of feminism, some are so
jargon laden that only the most knowledgeable would be able to navigate
the logic.  Four sections provide some structure: New Conceptual 
Frameworks, Integrating Feminist Knowledge; Revisioning Disciplinary
Knowledge; In from the Margin, Representing Otherness; and Experientially
Based Feminist Knowledge.

SUBMITTED BY:  Kate Corby, Michigan State University