A Feminist Perspective in the Academy
Title | A Feminist Perspective in the Academy PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Langland |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0226468755 |
Essays examine the impact of women's studies on scholarship in fields, includ American history, political science, economics, literary criticism, and psychology.
Surviving the Academy
Title | Surviving the Academy PDF eBook |
Author | Danusia Malina |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2003-09-02 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1135701482 |
This text brings together writing and research on feminist experience in academia. It covers issues such as provision of care, maternalism in the academy and dynamics of interaction between women in higher eduction. There are challenging and provocative analyses of many questions: how large is the gap between rhetoric and reality in HE institutions? how do institutions behave towards disabled staff? how far is stereotyping still affecting the roles which women play in academia? what do women face when they combine motherhood with teaching or studying? coping mechanisms and survival tactics are brought under scrutiny, and the effect these have on the behaviour of female academics and their interactions with the institution of each other. This text should provide insight and evidence for researchers to further develop their own theories, and also many starting points for those wishing to undertake their own research. Written in collaboration with the Women in Higher Education Network.
Women, Power, and the Academy
Title | Women, Power, and the Academy PDF eBook |
Author | Mary-Louise Kearney |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781571812483 |
Many nations affirm the principle of gender equality. As women continue to advance in most walks of life, the impression that equality has been reached and that gender issues no longer pose real problems has naturally gained ground. Yet, many cultural, economic, and social barriers remain. Although as many women as men possess the skills necessary to shape social and economic development, women are still prevented from fully participating in decision-making processes. The papers collected in this volume focus on universities as one of the key institutions providing women with the education and leadership skills necessary for their advancement. Equally important is the role universities play in the shaping of a society's cultural fabric and, consequently, of attitudes towards women and their place in society. Both aspects are examined in this volume on the basis of a number of case studies carried out in western and non-western societies.
Laboring Positions
Title | Laboring Positions PDF eBook |
Author | Sekile Nzinga-Johnson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | EDUCATION |
ISBN | 9781927335024 |
A Feminist Theory of Violence
Title | A Feminist Theory of Violence PDF eBook |
Author | Françoise Vergès |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2022-04-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780745345680 |
The State will not protect us from gender violence. Our feminism must be anti-racist and decolonial, and must fight for everyone's safety
Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy
Title | Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy PDF eBook |
Author | Laura A. Gray-Rosendale |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2020-03-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1793611130 |
Powerfully written and theoretically grounded, Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy collects a range of perspectives from sexual assault survivors with backgrounds in academia. The contributors in this collection connect their experiences of sexual violence to their research and work within the academy as well as their lives outside of it. Contributors analyze the events surrounding their experiences with sexual violence as well as the cultural, social, and political effects. Their analyses are located within discussions of recent cultural events and the larger contexts of race, ethnicity, class, age, gender, sexuality, region, and nation.
The Equivalents
Title | The Equivalents PDF eBook |
Author | Maggie Doherty |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2021-04-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0525434607 |
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD In 1960, Harvard’s sister college, Radcliffe, announced the founding of an Institute for Independent Study, a “messy experiment” in women’s education that offered paid fellowships to those with a PhD or “the equivalent” in artistic achievement. Five of the women who received fellowships—poets Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin, painter Barbara Swan, sculptor Marianna Pineda, and writer Tillie Olsen—quickly formed deep bonds with one another that would inspire and sustain their most ambitious work. They called themselves “the Equivalents.” Drawing from notebooks, letters, recordings, journals, poetry, and prose, Maggie Doherty weaves a moving narrative of friendship and ambition, art and activism, love and heartbreak, and shows how the institute spoke to the condition of women on the cusp of liberation. “Rich and powerful. . . . A love story about art and female friendship.” —Harper’s Magazine “Reads like a novel, and an intense one at that. . . . The Equivalents is an observant, thoughtful and energetic account.” —Margaret Atwood, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)