University and college women's and gender equity centers : the changing landscape / edited by Brenda Bethman, Anitra Cottledge, and Donna M. Bickford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bethman, Brenda, 1967- editor.

Cottledge, Anitra, editor.

Bickford, Donna, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Education (Higher)--United States.

Women.

Women--Education (Higher).

Universities and colleges--Social aspects.

Universities and colleges.

Women college students--Services for.

Women college students.

United States.

Women college students--Services for--United States.

Sex discrimination in higher education--United States.

Sex discrimination in higher education.

Universities and colleges--Social aspects--United States.

Physical Description:

x, 170 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"University and College Women's and Gender Equity Centers examines the new institutional contexts surrounding women's centers. It looks at the possibilities, as well as the challenges, to advocating for gender equity in higher education, and the ways in which women's and gender equity centers contribute to and lead that work. The book first describes the landscape of women's centers in higher education and explores the structures within which the centers are situated. In doing so, the book shows the ways in which many women's centers have expanded their work to include working with athletics, Greek life, men, transgender students, international students, student parents, veterans, etc. Contributions then delve into the profession of women's center work itself, and ask how women's center work has become "professionalized?" Threats and challenges to women's and gender equity centers are also explored, as contributions look at how their expansion has helped or complicated the role of centers? The collection concludes by highlighting current successes and forward-thinking approaches in women's centers and asking how gender equity centers can best prepare for the future? Through narratives, case studies, and by offering strategies and best practice, University and College Women's and Gender Equity Centers will engage emerging and existing equity centre professionals and women's and gender studies faculty and students and help them to move the work of gender equity forward in the next decade" -- Provided by publishers.

Contents:

Positioning campus women's and gender equity centers for success: structural issues and trends / Jane Goettsch, Ann Linden, Cindy Vanzant, and Pattie Waugh

Beyond parties and PNMs: an integrated model for women's and gender centers and sororities / Rita M. Jones

Exploring the relationships between campus women's centers and LGBTQ+ centers and initiatives / Jane Goettsch, Marci Mccaulay, and Hannah Thompson

Solidarity is for all: women's centers serving women of color / Lysa Salsbury and Rebekah Millermacphee

Late to the game: the politics of opening a women's center in 2015 / Jessica Nare

Where do we enter? How do we stay? The role of consciousness raising in developing women's center professionals / Kathleen Holgerson and Juli Parker

Experiences of women's center directors in student affairs / Colleen Riggle and Melanie Demaeyer

On trauma, ambivalence, and trying too hard / Susannah Bartlow

Putting our oxygen masks on first: women's and gender center staff and self-care / Brenda Bethman and Anitra Cottledge

Seeking relevance in an age of inequity: a case study of the identity struggle of one women's center / Susan V. Iverson and Cassie Pegg-Kirby

Blue language in a red state: inclusive sexuality education in a conservative climate

Lysa Salsbury, Julia Keleher, Erin Chapman

Ohio women's centers' reflections on evaluation and assessment: revisited / Nicole Carter, Lisa Rismiller, Amy J. Howton, Susanne B. Dietzel, and Kimberly A. Fulbright

Paying homage to college and university women's centers: gender justice work in the center for diversity and inclusion / Emelyn Dela Peña, Purvi Patel, and Brittany Harris

Beyond the label: leveraging the iconography of feminist from moments to movements / Uyenthi Tran Myhre

The personal and the professional: intersectional experiences in gender justice work / Jessica Jennrich, Sharalle Arnold, and Allison Roman

Addressing and dismantling cisgenderism in womxn's centers: reframing womxn's centers work toward an intersectional critical trans politic / Heather C. Lou

Vision to action: inside out strategic planning / Karlyn Crowley, St. Norbert College

Setting a transformative agenda for the next era: research on women's and gender centers / Raquel Wright-Mair and Susan B. Marine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815386810

0815386818

OCLC:

1050455916