The 'woman question' and higher education: perspectives on gender and knowledge production in America

This uniquely interdisciplinary study offers a provocative, contemporary look at the 'woman question' in relation to higher education at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Leading feminist scholars from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines - including history, philosophy, educ...

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Veröffentlicht: Cheltenham, U.K ; Northampton, Mass Edward Elgar 2008
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Zusammenfassung:This uniquely interdisciplinary study offers a provocative, contemporary look at the 'woman question' in relation to higher education at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Leading feminist scholars from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines - including history, philosophy, education, psychology, sociology, and economics - evaluate the role of biology, discrimination, and choice in rationalizing women's exclusion from fully participating in the process of knowledge production, as well as examining institutional impediments. Contextualizing arguments against women's inclusion and including contemporary perspectives on gender, this book offers a rich, multi-layered examination and critical insights into understanding the near universal difficulties that women encounter as they seek to participate fully in the process of knowledge production
1. The body in the library / Helen Lefkowitz Hororwitz -- 2. Gender, biology, and the incontrovertible logic of choice / Ann Mari May -- 3. Gender, professional knowledge, and institutional power : women social scientists and the research university / Mary Ann Dzuback -- 4. The missing women in higher education : a case study of culture crossing / Jane Roland Martin -- 5. Women in science, and elsewhere / Virginia Valian -- 6. Are smart men smarter than smart women? : the epistemology of ignorance, women, and the production of knowledge / Carla Fehr -- 7. Re-framing the discussion : how white male supremacy continues to obscure the realities of gender in higher education / Elizabeth Higginbotham -- 8. The faculty time divide / Jerry A. Jacobs
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [156]-176) and index
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ISBN:9781848440159