The Academic Kitchen: A Social History of Gender Stratification at the University of California, Berkeley

Nerad, Maresi

ISBN 10: 0791439704 / ISBN 13: 9780791439708

Editore: State University of New York Press, 1999

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Riassunto:

The Academic Kitchen tells the story of the evolution of an all-women's department, the Department of Home Economics, at the University of California, Berkeley from 1905 to 1954. The book's unique focus on the connection between gender and departmental status challenges organizational theorists and higher education specialists to reconsider their traditional analysis of academic departments. By incorporating gender in the analysis, Nerad reveals the process by which departments traditionally dominated by women, including education, library science, nursing, social welfare, and home economics, begin as separate (and unequal) programs and are subsequently eliminated (or sustained without economic rewards, prestige, and power) when administrators no longer regard them as useful.

Informazioni sull'autore: Maresi Nerad is Director of Graduate Research at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published several works, including Graduate Education in the United States (with R. June and D. Miller).

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Titolo: The Academic Kitchen: A Social History of ...
Casa editrice: State University of New York Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1999
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good
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