Elizabeth Weed
Elizabeth Weed | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1940 (age 84–85) |
| Alma mater | Drew University Brown University |
| Occupation(s) | Scholar Editor University administrator |
| Known for | differences |
| Title | Director, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women |
| Term | 2000–2010 |
Elizabeth Weed (born 1940) is an American feminist scholar, editor and university administrator. She is the cofounder and, from 2000 to 2010, director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, as well as the feminist studies journal differences, cofounded in 1989 with Naomi Schor.
Early life
Elizabeth Weed was born in 1940 in Morris Plains, New Jersey, to Marguerite and Edgar Weed.[1] She studied French literature at Drew University, graduating in 1962, and then went to Brown University for her master's (1966) and doctorate (1973) in French Studies.[1]
Career
From 1973 to 1977, Weed was an assistant professor at Wheaton College, and then returned to Brown as director of the Sarah Doyle Women's Center,[1] a position she held from 1977 to 1981.[2] In 1981,[3] she was a cofounder of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, where she eventually became director (2000 to 2010).[2] Discussing the founding of the Pembroke Center and its impact on her own intellectual trajectory, the founding director, historian Joan Wallach Scott, said Weed's dexterity with theory was an important corrective to Scott's historical training: "I continue to think of Elizabeth Weed as my mentor. Her training is in literature. She is one of the most theoretically sophisticated people I know, and she is very good at pointing out the theoretical implications of what you are doing. She is the person I always go to for advice and for critical reading."[4] As of 2014, Weed was retired from teaching.[3]
differences and edited collections
In 2011, with Judith Butler, Weed published an edited collection (also originally a special issues of differences) on the 25th anniversary of Joan Wallach Scott's essay, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis”.[5] Reviews found the collection offered “fresh analyses of the state of gender studies and the dynamic theories of ‘sexual difference’ as proposed, tested and critiqued by Joan Scott.”[6][7] Writing in Comparative Literature Studies, Geoffrey Berne highlights the collection’s discussions of how Scott’s "scholarship relates to the impasse of history/literature",[8] while Stephanie Clare's review for Symposium notes its engagement with Scott's recurrent questions of the historical contingency of gender as well as the paradox that gender may be constructed but feminism's claims rely on a stable conception of gender.[9]
Personal life
While at Brown Weed met Christina Crosby, a graduate student in the late '70s and early '80s, who became Weed's partner for 17 years.[10]
Works
- Weed, Elizabeth, ed. (1989). Coming to Terms: Feminism, Theory, Politics. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-63521-9.[11]
- Schor, Naomi; Weed, Elizabeth, eds. (1994). The Essential Difference. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35093-0.[12]
- Butler, Judith; Weed, Elizabeth, eds. (2011). The Question of Gender: Joan W. Scott's Critical Feminism. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-22324-1.[9][6][8][7]
- Weed, Elizabeth, ed. (2013). Essential Readings in US Feminist Theory. Nanjing University Press (in Chinese).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Elizabeth Weed, Staff". The Pembroke Center Oral History Project. Brown University. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Elizabeth Weed CV" (PDF). Brown University. 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 1, 2021. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Raab, Barbara (2015). "Interview with Elizabeth Weed" (PDF). Brown University. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-02-08.
- ↑ Watson, Janell (2011-11-01). "Psychoanalysis, Secularism, and Sexuality: An Interview with Joan Wallach Scott". The Minnesota Review. 2011 (77): 101–110. doi:10.1215/00265667-1422598. ISSN 0026-5667. S2CID 144183050 – via Project MUSE.
- ↑ Nachescu, Voichita (2013-12-06). "Gender, Revisited". WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly. 41 (3): 290–293. doi:10.1353/wsq.2013.0090. ISSN 1934-1520. S2CID 201760279. Archived from the original on 2018-06-03. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Quataert, Jean H. (2012). "Review of The Question of Gender: Joan W. Scott's Critical Feminism. (Twenty-first Century Studies, number 4.), , ; The Fantasy of Feminist History. (Next Wave Provocations.)". The American Historical Review. 117 (5): 1539–1542. doi:10.1093/ahr/117.5.1539. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 23426560.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Nachescu, Voichita (2013). "Gender, Revisited". Women's Studies Quarterly. 41 (3/4): 290–293. ISSN 0732-1562. JSTOR 23611529.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Berney, Geoffrey (2014-07-03). "The Question of Gender: Joan W. Scott's Critical Feminism ed. by Judith Butler and Elizabeth Weed (review)". Comparative Literature Studies. 51 (2): 344–347. doi:10.5325/complitstudies.51.2.0344. ISSN 1528-4212.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Clare, Stephanie (2014-01-01). "A Review of "The Question of Gender: Joan W. Scott's Critical Feminism"". Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures. 68 (1): 54–56. doi:10.1080/00397709.2014.876856. ISSN 0039-7709. S2CID 142773911.
- ↑ Seelye, Katharine Q. (27 January 2021). "Christina Crosby, 67, Dies; Feminist Scholar Wrote of Becoming Disabled". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 27 January 2021. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
- ↑ Weeks, Kathi. “Coming to Terms: Feminism, Theory, Politics.” Women & Politics. 1992, Vol. 12 Issue 3, pp. 73-75.
- ↑ Jagger, Gill (1 November 1996). "The Essential Difference". Women's Philosophy Review (15): 28–29. doi:10.5840/wpr19961522. Retrieved 29 January 2021.