Critical Approaches to Women and Gender in Higher Education

Pamela L. Eddy is Professor of Higher Education at the College of William and Mary, USA.  Kelly Ward is Professor of Higher Education and Chair of Educational Leadership, Sport Studies, and Counseling/Educational Psychology at Washington State University, USA. Tehmina Khwaja is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology in Islamabad, Pakistan.

• Introduction.- PART I: Leaders and Organizations.- Chapter 1. Problematizing Gender in Higher Education: Why Leaning In Isn’t Enough.- Chapter 2. Finding their Own Voice: Women’s Leadership Rhetoric.- Chapter 3. Conditions Enabling Women’s Leadership in Community Colleges.- Chapter 4. Higher Education Policy:  Disrupting the Structures that Bind Us.- PART II: Faculty and Staff.- Chapter 5. Troubling Gender Norms and the Ideal Worker in Academic Life.- Chapter 6. Part of the Discussion?  Gendered Role of Support Staff in Higher Education.- Chapter 7. Feminist Faculty: Striving to be Heard.- Chapter 8. Gender Equity in Austrian Universities: Constructions of power, knowledge, and response-ability in the process of change.- Chapter 9. The Generations of Women Faculty.- PART III: Students.- Chapter 10. Trans* and Gender Non-Conforming Students: Moving Beyond Inclusion.- Chapter 11. Gender Dynamics in the Active, Engaged Classroom: Why do Women Students Underrate Themselves?.- Chapter 12. Changing View of Self-as-Leader: What Female College Students Tell Us.- Chapter 13. Honoring the Face Behind the Mask: Interrogating Masculine Performatives as Counter-Hegemonic Action.- PART IV: Looking Forward.- Chapter 14. Gender in Higher Education: Reaching the Tipping Point for Change.