Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads

<p>Women’s studies programs and departments face ongoing fall-out from an economic crisis in higher education. Taking the form of budget-cuts reduction of faculty lines and other resource allocations for some programs and departments it has meant at best a loss of disciplinary autonomy through consolidation and at worst academic foreclosure. <em>Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads</em> articulates a politics of commitment hope and possibility wrought in the coming-together of a group of feminist women and men—across racial cultural nation/state sexual and gender differences—during a tough budgetary time threatening Women’s Studies programs across the nation. This anthology affirms the continued necessity of bridge-building alliances in women’s studies and contemplates with promise the theory and practice of feminist solidarity forged through the course of its production. While the essays in this book display a complex diversity of feminist thought and modes of intersectional strategies they reflect a unity of comradery and a spirit of collectivity so necessary for these turbulent times. </p>