Gendered futures in higher education : critical perspectives for change / Becky Ropers-Huilman, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ropers-Huilman, Becky.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex discrimination in higher education--United States.

Sex discrimination in higher education.

Women in higher education.

United States.

Women in higher education--United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 206 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2003]

Summary:

This volume addresses the ways in which gender takes shape in and is shaped by higher education environments. Focusing on historical knowledge and contemporary experience, the contributors identify several key gender issues affecting students, faculty, and leaders in higher education. They examine such diverse topics as what lessons women's colleges have to offer, violence on campus, women faculty and part-time employment, and intersecting identities of race and gender, and they apply critical perspectives to suggest needed change. While they may not agree on the necessary strategies to improve higher education environments, they do agree that those environments are currently deeply and problematically gendered.

Contents:

Gender in the Future of Higher Education / Becky Ropers-Huilman 1

Part I Learning from the Past

1. From Whence They Came: The Contexts, Challenges, and Courage of Early Women Administrators in Higher Education / Jana Nidiffer 15

2. Gender and Higher Education: What Should We Learn from Women's Colleges? / Lisa Wolf-Wendel 35

Part II Deconstructing the Present: Student Lives

3. Stepping off the Scale: Promoting Positive Body Image in College Students / Laura Hensley 55

4. The Gender of Violence on Campus / William F. Pinar 77

Part III Deconstructing the Present: Faculty Lives

5. Women Faculty and Part-Time Employment: The Impact of Public Policy / Judith Glazer-Raymo 97

6. Future Prospects for Women Faculty: Negotiating Work and Family / Lisa Wolf-Wendel, Kelly Ward 111

7. Negotiating Identities and Making Change: Feminist Faculty in Higher Education / Becky Ropers-Huilman, Monisa Shackelford 135

Part IV Re-Conceiving the Future

8. Advocacy Education: Teaching, Research and Difference in Higher Education / Becky Ropers-Huilman, Denise Taliaferro 151

9. Gender, Race, and Millennial Curiosity / Ana M. Martinez Aleman 179.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791456986

0791456978

OCLC:

50982278