Product Description
by Michele Tracy Berger (Author), Cheryl Radeloff (Author)
Transforming Scholarship offers an essential guide to one of the most richly rewarding yet often under-appreciated academic majors: Women's and Gender Studies.
This fully updated and revised third edition answers the question of what you can do with a women's and gender studies degree with resounding authority. Chapters include exercises and valuable point-of-view segments with recent graduates and academics to help students realize their many talents and passions and how these may be linked to future professional opportunities. Students are also encouraged to reflect on the ways in which their efforts in the classroom can be translated into a life guided by feminism, civic engagement, and activism with updates such as:
- A focus on activism that resulted from socio-political movements in the 2010s-2020, such as #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) and the #MeToo Movement;
- An examination of the impact of COVID-19 on the academic and socio-cultural environment and career opportunities for graduates;
- An exploration of increased acceptance of social justice and feminist perspectives;
- Highlighting of intersectional identities of WGST students and faculty.
Transforming Scholarship is an ideal counterpart and companion for capstone courses in women's and gender studies, and for those who have finished their degree and are looking for invaluable advice while pondering, "What's next?"
Author Biography
Michele Tracy Berger is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her research, teaching, and practice all focus on intersectional approaches to studying areas of inequality, especially racial and gender health disparities. Her work spans the fields of public health, sociology, and women's and gender studies.
Cheryl Radeloff is a Senior Health Educator with the Southern Nevada Health District. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the College of Southern Nevada. She received her PhD in Sociology from UNLV in 2004. Her research interests include gender studies, sexual and public health, particularly HIV and STIs, and social policy and are reflected in her professional and community activism.
