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This book illuminates intricate and unexpected connections among the past of academic feminism, the geopolitics of the Cold War, and the concept of intersectionality as it is articulated in scholarship on and by U.S. women of color.

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Using interviews with former editors and archival materials from the first decade of the interdisciplinary academic journal Signs , Kelly Coogan-Gehr shows how this influential journal dealt with issues related to development studies, Third World women, and US women of color, and how all this was affected by external funding agencies and their policies. The book is quite well written and thoughtful. It deals with important issues and raises many good questions, and was a pleasure to read. <br>--Marilyn J. Boxer, Professor of History Emerita, San Francisco State University

Using interviews with former editors and archival materials from the first decade of the interdisciplinary academic journal Signs, Kelly Coogan-Gehr shows how this influential journal dealt with issues related to development studies, Third World women, and US women of color, and how all this was affected by external funding agencies and their policies. The book is quite well written and thoughtful. It deals with important issues and raises many good questions, and was a pleasure to read. <br>--Marilyn J. Boxer, professor of History emerita, San Francisco State University Kelly Coogan-Gehr corrects the simple narrative of how women's studies grew out of the women's movement by tracking the first decade of Signs to reveal how the government, private foundations, and the university interacted with scholars to shape and legitimize certain frames for studying women. The archival research challenges ivory tower notions of our operations by detailing the complexities of sociopolitical a

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KELLY COOGAN-GEHR Lecturer in Women's and Gender Studies Program at Eastern Washington University, USA.

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