Shattering the myths : women in academe / Judith Glazer-Raymo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glazer-Raymo, Judith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women college teachers--United States--History.

Women college teachers.

Women college teachers--United States--Social conditions.

Feminism and education--United States--History.

Feminism and education.

Educational equalization--United States--History.

Educational equalization.

History.

Social conditions.

United States.

Physical Description:

xv, 237 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1999]

Summary:

In Shattering the Myths, Judith Glazer-Raymo uses a critical feminist perspective to examine women's progress in the field of higher education since 1970. She contrasts the activism of the 1970s, the passivity of the 1980s, and the ambivalence and antipathy demonstrated toward feminism in the 1990s. These waves of change, she explains, were brought about by external forces, by generational differences between women, and by intellectual and ideological struggles within the women's movement and the larger academic culture. Her work draws on the experience of women faculty and administrators as they articulate and reflect on the social, economic, political, and ideological contexts in which they work and the multiple influences on their professional and personal lives.

Arguing that the corporatization of the university is creating new obstacles that deter women's full participation, the author identifies the gender implications of rules and practices that might otherwise seem neutral or objective. Pervasive concerns relate to attacks on academic freedom, the validity of the academic pipeline and academic labor market arguments, the retreat from affirmative action, the retrenchment of feminized fields, the growth of a dual employment system, the resilience of the glass ceiling and other barriers to advancement, and the curriculum as contested terrain. In tracing three decades of women's progress in the academy, the author provides data from a variety of sources (including national and regional databases) on women's rank, salaries, employment status, and education. Finally, her critique is informed by her own experience in the academy as an administrator, researcher, community activist,teacher, mentor, and advisor.

The book concludes with a look toward the new century, in which, the author argues, women will need to become political actors at the center of the university in order to throw off the constraints that inhibit their progress and to undo the effects of the social backlash that threatens their hard-earned gains of the preceding three decades.

Contents:

1 The Personal and the Professional: Becoming a Feminist 1

2 The Academic Pipeline and the Academic Labor Market 36

3 Leveling the Playing Field: Tenure and Salaries 65

4 Women in the Professions 101

5 Women Who Lead: The Glass Ceiling Phenomenon 140

6 Implementing Change: Campus Commissions and Feminist Pedagogy 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-226) and index.

ISBN:

0801861209

OCLC:

40251699