Gender and Higher Education

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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This comprehensive, encyclopedic review explores gender and its impact on American higher education across historical and cultural contexts. Challenging recent claims that gender inequities in U.S. higher education no longer exist, the contributors-leading experts in the field-reveal the many ways in which gender is embedded in the educational practices, curriculum, institutional structures, and governance of colleges and universities. This work features the latest theories, scholarship, research, and debates related to gender and higher education, including institutional diversity; academic majors and programs; extracurricular organizations such as sororities, fraternities, and women's centers; affirmative action and other higher educational policies; and a range of theories-from liberal feminism to postmodern queer theory-that have been used to analyze and explain the ways in which gender in academe is constructed. Theoretically grounded and based on the newest research, Gender and Higher Education provides an excellent overview for students of higher education, gender studies, and sociology, as well as for anyone interested in the current state of scholarship and practice.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-04-26
Mått:178 x 254 x 28 mm
Vikt:816 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:456
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9780801897825

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Högskola och universitet inom Psykologi och pedagogik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

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Barbara J. Bank is a professor emerita of sociology and women's studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She is the author of Contradictions in Women's Education: Traditionalism, Careerism, and Community at a Single-Sex College and editor of Gender and Education: An Encyclopedia.

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PrefaceIntroductionPart I: Theoretical Perspectives and Educational ResearchOverviewChapter 1. Academic CapitalismChapter 2. Black Feminism, Womanism, and Standpoint TheoriesChapter 3. College Student DevelopmentChapter 4. Feminist Critiques of Educational Research and PracticesChapter 5. Feminist Reproduction TheoryChapter 6. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Identity Development TheoriesChapter 7. LIberal and Radical FeminismsChapter 8. Multicultural and Global FeminismsChapter 9. Postmodern and Poststructural TheoriesChapter 10. Queer TheoryPart II: Instritutional Structures and ContextsChapter 11. Coeducational Colleges and UniversitiesChapter 12. Community CollegeChapter 13. Distance EducationChapter 14. Historically Black Colleges and UniversitiesChapter 15. Men's College and UniversitiesChapter 16. Military Colleges and AcademiesChapter 17. Tribal Colleges and UniversitiesChapter 18. Women's Colleges and UniversitiesPart III: Gender Constructions and Controversies in the Academic CurriculumChapter 19. Academic Programs: Undergraduate, Graduate, and ProfessionalChapter 20. Biological and Physical SciencesChapter 21. Black Studies and Black Women's StudiesChapter 22. EngineeringChapter 23. Feminist PedagogyChapter 24. From Home Economics to Family and Consumer SciencesChapter 25. HistoryChapter 26. Literary StudiesChapter 27. MathematicsChapter 28. Men's StudiesChapter 29. Multicultural EducationChapter 30. Teach EducationChapter 31. Technology and Computer ScienceChapter 32. Women's and Gender StudiesPart IV: Gender Constructions in the ExtracurriculumChapter 33. Campus Resources and Support for LGBTQQIA Students, Faculty and StaffChapter 34. FraternitiesChapter 35. Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC)Chapter 36. Service Learning and ActivismChapter 37. SoroitiesChapter 38. Women's CentersV. Gendered Faculty and AdministrationChapter 39. Academic Career PatternsChapter 40. Administrative Leadership SylesChapter 41. Advising and Mentoring Graduate StudentsChapter 42. Faculty WorkloadsChapter 43. Mentoring Women FacultyVI: Gender and Higher Education PoliciesChapter 44. Affirmative ActionChapter 45. Evaluation Policies for AcademicsChapter 46. Sexual Harassment Policies and PracticesChapter 47. Students' RightsChapter 48. Title IX and College AthleticsChapter 49. University Women's Commissions and Policy DiscoursesChapter 50. Work-Family Conflicts and PoliciesContributorsIndex