Women in higher education : an encyclopedia / Ana M. Martínez Alemán and Kristen A. Renn, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martínez Alemán, Ana M.

Renn, Kristen A.

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in higher education--United States--Encyclopedias.

Women in higher education.

United States.

Genre:

Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 637 pages) : illustrations

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2002]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

For more than two centuries, American women of all classes and racial/ethnic backgrounds have organized, marched, protested, and gone to court for the right to equal opportunity on our college campuses. Today, they outnumber men in total college enrollment, and over the past 30 years, the percentage of women students, teachers, and administrators has skyrocketed. Women in Higher Education: An Encyclopedia documents the experiences of the many groups of women who are part of the higher education system -- students, administrators, faculty, and staff -- across a broad spectrum of social class, age, sexual orientation, and racial/ethnic groups. This encyclopedia is for students, scholars, policy makers, and journalists -- for anyone with an interest in how women have experienced higher education and how higher education has responded to women and to gender issues. It provides a lively, accessible, and egalitarian source of information for papers, class projects, course lectures, and articles in the popular media.

Contents:

Women in Higher Education; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1 Historical and Cultural Contexts; Part 2 Gender Theory and the Academy; Part 3 Feminism in the Academy; Part 4 Women in the Curriculum; Part 5 Women and Higher Education Policy; Part 6 Women Students; Part 7 Women Faculty; Part 8 Women Administrators; Part 9 Women Employees; Appendix 1: Women's Studies Research Resources; Appendix 2: Colleges Identifying Themselves as Women's Colleges; Bibliography; Index; About the Editors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-589) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Women in higher education.

ISBN:

1576076156

9781576076156

1280713909

9781280713903

Publisher Number:

99990106933

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.