Women in higher education : empowering change / edited by JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DiGeorgio-Lutz, JoAnn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in higher education.

Feminism and higher education.

Physical Description:

viii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Summary:

Evaluates the ways in which faculty, administration, and programs in a university provide women with the necessary tools for leadership and growth.

Contents:

1 Expanding the Academic Knowledge Base: Helping Students to Cross Gender's Great Divide / Margaret Konz Snooks 5

2 Teaching about Gender through Experience: A Pedagogy of Engagement / Cindy Simon Rosenthal 21

3 Homeless in Academia: Homesteading as a Strategy for Change in a World of Hegemonic Masculinity / Annica Kronsell 37

4 Feminism and Interdisciplinarity / Sharlene Hesse-Biber 57

5 Women in Art: A Continuing Controversy / J. Susan Isaacs 67

6 Radical Learning: A New Vision of Feminist Pedagogy / Peggy Douglas 79

7 Beyond Gender and Heterosexuality: Teaching Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson in an Undergraduate Classroom / Justyna Kostkowska 95

8 A Model for Evaluating Gender Equity in Academe / Kenneth L. Miller, Susan M. Miller 103

9 The Transformative Leadership of Women in Higher Education Administration / Margaret Madden 115

10 Institutional Barriers for Women Scientists and Engineers: What Four Years of Survey Data of National Science Foundation POWRE Awardees Reveal / Sue V. Rosser 145

11 The Backlash against Women's Studies / Bonnie J. Morris 161.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-180) and index.

ISBN:

0897898877

OCLC:

49618548