The ‘Woman Question’ and Higher Education

Edited by Ann Mari May

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Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
ISBN: 9781847204011
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 The Body in the Library

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Ch 2 Gender, Biology, and the Incontrovertible Logic of Choice

Ann Mari May

Ch 3 Gender, Professional Knowledge, and Institutional Power: Women Social Scientists and the Research University

Mary Ann Dzuback

Ch 4 The Missing Women in Higher Education: A Case Study of Culture Crossing

Jane Roland Martin

Ch 5 Women in Science – and Elsewhere

Virginia Valian

Ch 6 Are Smart Men Smarter than Smart Women? The Epistemology of Ignorance, Women, and the Production of Knowledge

Carla Fehr

Ch 7 Re-framing the Discussion: How White Male Supremacy Continues to Obscure the Reality of Gender in Higher Education

Elizabeth Higginbotham

Ch 8 The Faculty Time Divide

Jerry A. Jacobs

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