A Feminist Perspective in the Academy

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

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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

Surviving the Academy
Title Surviving the Academy PDF eBook
Author Danusia Malina
Publisher Routledge
Pages 323
Release 2003-09-02
Genre Education
ISBN 1135701482

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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

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

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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

Laboring Positions
Title Laboring Positions PDF eBook
Author Sekile Nzinga-Johnson
Publisher
Pages 313
Release 2013
Genre EDUCATION
ISBN 9781927335024

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A Feminist Theory of Violence

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

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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

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

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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

The Equivalents
Title The Equivalents PDF eBook
Author Maggie Doherty
Publisher Vintage
Pages 402
Release 2021-04-13
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0525434607

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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)