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Abstract
Drawing from the growing literature on interdisciplinarity and my own experiences as an intellectual hybrid, I discuss the personal and institutional challenges inherent in crossing disciplinary boundaries in the academy. I argue that boundary crossing is a natural occurrence and that the issue of (inter)disciplinarity is a matter of degree and of determining who gets to define the boundaries. Defining boundaries is not merely an intellectual enterprise, but also a political act that delineates what is, or is not, legitimate scholarship. This issue is especially salient to women's and gender studies during times of economic distress and educational budget cuts.
Recommended Citation
Price, Kimala. 2012. "Reflections on Intellectual Hybridity." Journal of Feminist Scholarship 2 (Spring): 54-68. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jfs/vol2/iss2/10
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