Women's Studies in the Academy

Women's Studies in the Academy

Author: Robyn L. Rosen

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13:

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Providing a historical framework for understanding how women's studies evolved from women's struggles for access to higher education, this book illustrates the impact that feminist perspectives have made in the academy. Using the disciplines as its organizing principle, the First Edition explores eleven major fields to examine the host of contributions and critiques being made by feminist scholars. This book also probes the emergence of women's studies in the late 1960s as an accomplishment of great historical significance, and presents a vast array of readings by feminist scholars over the past 30 years. For professionals with a career or interest in women's studies, sociology, psychology, history, and/or education.


Women, Power, and the Academy

Women, Power, and the Academy

Author: Mary-Louise Kearney

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781571812483

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Many nations affirm the principle of gender equality. As women continue to advance in most walks of life, the impression that equality has been reached and that gender issues no longer pose real problems has naturally gained ground. Yet, many cultural, economic, and social barriers remain. Although as many women as men possess the skills necessary to shape social and economic development, women are still prevented from fully participating in decision-making processes. The papers collected in this volume focus on universities as one of the key institutions providing women with the education and leadership skills necessary for their advancement. Equally important is the role universities play in the shaping of a society's cultural fabric and, consequently, of attitudes towards women and their place in society. Both aspects are examined in this volume on the basis of a number of case studies carried out in western and non-western societies.


A Feminist Perspective in the Academy

A Feminist Perspective in the Academy

Author: Elizabeth Langland

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 0226468755

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Essays examine the impact of women's studies on scholarship in fields, includ American history, political science, economics, literary criticism, and psychology.


Building Gender Equity in the Academy

Building Gender Equity in the Academy

Author: Sandra Laursen

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published: 2020-11-24

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1421439387

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Grounded in scholarship but written for busy institutional leaders, Building Gender Equity in the Academy is a handbook of actionable strategies for faculty and administrators working to improve the inclusion and visibility of women and others who are marginalized in the sciences and in academe more broadly.


Women's Studies on Its Own

Women's Studies on Its Own

Author: Robyn Wiegman

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2002-11-13

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 9780822329862

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DIVThe future of a retheorized women's studies in an increasingly institutionalized context./div


Reconstructing the Academy

Reconstructing the Academy

Author: Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780226530130

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Examining the multiple relationships of women to education, this volume documents the history of women's attempts to gain access to education, as well as what and how they have learned. Individual essays explore the development and impact of women's studies, the significance of women's colleges, and the future of curriculum transformation, among other topics.


Organising Feminisms

Organising Feminisms

Author: L. Morley

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1999-06-22

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0333984234

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This study of feminism, equity and change in the academy is based on interviews with 40 feminist academics and students in Britain, Sweden and Greece. The research attempts to decode and disentangle gendered message systems and the matrix of power relations in the academy. It consists of feminist readings of the micro-processes of everyday practices. Change is interrogated in relation to feminist pedagogy, equity, organizational culture, policies and discourses of New Right reform, mass expansion and new managerialism.


The Impact of Feminist Research in the Academy

The Impact of Feminist Research in the Academy

Author: Christie Farnham

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1987-12-22

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780253116031

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"... comprehensive, well-written, and useful... A must... " -- Choice "... interdisciplinary... with exciting contributions from the humanities and the social and natural sciences." -- Quest "... a treasure of rich and challenging scholarship that covers many fields... " -- Religious Education "The helpful insights from a wide range of disciplines -- Economics to Literature -- accumulated here in a focused manner should be useful to all scholars interested in Women's Studies." -- Kathryn Allen Rabuzzi, Syracuse University, Religious Studies Review "... exciting, state-of-the-art essays across a wide variety of fields." -- Gender & Society Nationally recognized scholars assess the impact of over a decade of research on women. Originally intended merely as a corrective -- filling in a missing part of the story -- the cumulative effect of this body of scholarship is to pose paradigm shifts for the traditional disciplines.