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This article is not really relevant (although it does have some interesting things to say about the category "women"), but I thought this point connected well to our conversation in class today: 

"Interdisciplinary borrowing has always seemed to me a difficult and risky business, requiring that we respect high standards of scholarship as we acquire new ways of analyzing and thinking. Criticism of the methods and approaches developed by other disciplines is even more challenging because it demands that we fully engage with and understand, in their terms, the ideas we want to dispute. Indeed, it seems to me that one earns the right to criticize work in another field only by the hard effort of learning that field. The glib use of technical terms, superficial familiarity with a few phrases, and schematic portrayals of main themes, do not constitute serious interdisciplinary work; rather, they represent an abdication of professional responsibility."