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The 'woman question' and higher education : perspectives on gender and knowledge production in America / edited by Ann Mari May; foreword by Alice Kessler-Harris.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextEdward Elgar, 2008Description: xviii, 181 pages; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781848444591
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LC1576 WOM
Contents:
The body in the library / Helen Lefkowitz Hororwitz Gender, biology, and the incontrovertible logic of choice / Ann Mari May Gender, professional knowledge, and institutional power : women social scientists and the research university / Mary Ann Dzuback The missing women in higher education : a case study of culture crossing / Jane Roland Martin Women in science, and elsewhere / Virginia Valian Are smart men smarter than smart women? : the epistemology of ignorance, women, and the production of knowledge / Carla Fehr Re-framing the discussion : how white male supremacy continues to obscure the realities of gender in higher education / Elizabeth Higginbotham The faculty time divide / Jerry A. Jacobs
Summary: Offers a look at the 'Woman Question' in relation to higher education at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Including contemporary perspectives on gender, this book provides insights into understanding the difficulties that women encounter as they seek to participate fully in the process of knowledge production
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Includes bibliography and index


The body in the library / Helen Lefkowitz Hororwitz
Gender, biology, and the incontrovertible logic of choice / Ann Mari May
Gender, professional knowledge, and institutional power : women social scientists and the research university / Mary Ann Dzuback
The missing women in higher education : a case study of culture crossing / Jane Roland Martin
Women in science, and elsewhere / Virginia Valian
Are smart men smarter than smart women? : the epistemology of ignorance, women, and the production of knowledge / Carla Fehr
Re-framing the discussion : how white male supremacy continues to obscure the realities of gender in higher education / Elizabeth Higginbotham
The faculty time divide / Jerry A. Jacobs

Offers a look at the 'Woman Question' in relation to higher education at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Including contemporary perspectives on gender, this book provides insights into understanding the difficulties that women encounter as they seek to participate fully in the process of knowledge production

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