Gendered Futures in Higher Education

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Gendered Futures in Higher Education
Critical Perspectives for Change

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Becky Ropers-Huilman - Editor

Price: $62.50
Hardcover - 216 pages

Release Date: March 2003

ISBN10: 0-7914-5697-8
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5697-2

Price: $31.95
Paperback - 216 pages

Release Date: February 2003

ISBN10: 0-7914-5698-6
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5698-9

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Summary

Identifies gender issues affecting students, faculty, and leaders in higher education, applying critical perspectives to suggest needed change.

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.

“While several existing books focus on women in higher education or a feminist perspective, none capture the issue of gender like this book … Overall the volume is concise and includes a wide variety of issues, making it a potential textbook or discussion tool for the classroom or professional development.” — Journal of College Student Development

"As an examination of the current state of the research, this collection succeeds admirably. I recommend it as a very useful text for all students of higher education, particularly those who want to begin to uncover the societal power relations of today’s higher education system and push these issues further." — The Journal of Higher Education

"The topic of the gendering of higher education is most interesting and significant, and this collection goes a long way toward filling an important lacuna. The book uses poststructuralist ideas to frame the perspectives and approaches, yet remains highly readable and challenging." — Miriam E. David, coauthor of Closing the Gender Gap: Postwar Education and Social Change

Contributors include Judith Glazer-Raymo, Laura Hensley, Ana M. Martínez Alemán, Jana Nidiffer, William F. Pinar, Becky Ropers-Huilman, Monisa Shackelford, Denise Taliaferro, Kelly Ward, and Lisa Wolf-Wendel.

Becky Ropers-Huilman is Associate Professor of Higher Education and Women's and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University. She is the author of Feminist Teaching in Theory and Practice: Situating Power and Knowledge in Poststructural Classrooms and the coeditor (with Judith Glazer-Raymo and Barbara K. Townsend) of Women in Higher Education: A Feminist Perspective, Second Edition.

Table of Contents

Gender in the Future of Higher Education
Becky Ropers-Huilman

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

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

PART II. DECONSTRUCTING THE PRESENT: STUDENT LIVES

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

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

PART III. DECONSTRUCTING THE PRESENT: FACULTY LIVES

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

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

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

PART IV. RE-CONCEIVING THE FUTURE

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

9. Gender, Race and Millennial Curiosity
Ana M. Martínez Alemán

Contributors
Index

Related Subjects

Educational Administration
Education
Gender Studies

41494/41495(PR/MH/AV)

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