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9781848444591: The 'Woman Question' and Higher Education: Perspectives on Gender and Knowledge Production in America
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ISBN 10: 1848444591 ISBN 13: 9781848444591
Casa editrice: Edward Elgar Pub, 2009

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These essays offer fresh insights on the question of the paucity of women in higher education and together form a thoughtful and contemporary response to Lawrence Summers and the 'Woman Question' in the twenty-first century.

This uniquely interdisciplinary study offers a provocative, contemporary look at the 'Woman Question' in relation to higher education at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Leading feminist scholars from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines — including history, philosophy, education, psychology, sociology, and economics — evaluate the role of biology, discrimination, and choice in rationalizing women's exclusion from fully participating in the process of knowledge production, as well as examining institutional impediments. Contextualizing arguments against women's inclusion and including contemporary perspectives on gender, this book offers a rich, multi-layered examination and critical insights into understanding the near universal difficulties that women encounter as they seek to participate fully in the process of knowledge production.

This book addresses one of the most compelling topics of our time and speaks to our need to understand the long struggle of women to gain an authoritative voice in higher education and the factors that underlie that struggle. Scholars and researchers of women's studies, higher education, and a range of humanities and social sciences will find this book a welcome addition to the literature.

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Edited by Ann Mari May, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US

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Editore
Edward Elgar Pub
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1848444591
ISBN 13 
9781848444591
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
181
Redattore
May Ann May
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9781847204011: The 'Woman Question' and Higher Education: Perspectives on Gender and Knowledge Production in America

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ISBN 10:  1847204015 ISBN 13:  9781847204011
Casa editrice: Edward Elgar Pub, 2008
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