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Responding to John Scott's (2005) 'Sociology and its others', the idea of hybridic sociologies is developed, Mills' ideas about 'the sociological imagination' are discussed, Scott's proposal for a core curriculum countered with some suggestions for extended in-depth disciplinary debate about an intellectually expansionist programme for UK sociology, and responses to these suggestions as well as to the broad argument are welcomed.

"Urgent. How many able bodied native men have you in your camp available for work. Military depots require many. Fair wages will be paid. Natives refusing work are to be cut off rations."

Considers the marginal status of feminists on the borders of sociology in an alternating discussion of several personal episodes & theoretical vignettes. Personal episodes are intended to exemplify discussions of the marginality of women in academia, the nature of fragmented identity in an academic context, the role of race in feminist politics, & class issues in feminist theorizing. The evolution of the academy & feminism's place in it since the 1970s are highlighted. Though much has changed in the academic environment, caution is registered about how much change has occurred. Gatekeepers & other mechanisms of inclusion & exclusion continue to exist, even if various subaltern groups have made considerable headway in the discipline. Through these ruminations, it is shown that practices of exclusion are not particular to white men, but may be implemented by everyone in the effort to protect advantage. 14 References. D. M. Ryfe

Introduces an edited vol that examines the borderlands (1) between feminisms & conventional ways of knowing & (2) between various feminisms. Contributions share a focus on the borderlands between the academy & outside groups, organizations, & audiences. Historically, women have always existed at the margins of the academy. Their reaction to this status has been to construct feminist theories that eventually became part of the mainstream academy. This success has produced a loss of certainty & purpose in feminist circles as disciplines have fragmented along various epistemic & ontological lines. It is concluded that this fragmentation must be dealt with on the basis of a politics of location that insists that all knowledge is grounded in specific & contextualized acts of knowing. D. M. Ryfe