This reader is designed to supplement a range of higher education or women's studies courses, or as a primary text for women in higher education, gender and women's studies. Incorporating selections from both journals and books from the 1990s, this reader presents the current issues facing women in academia. Comparative, multicultural, and policy perspectives are all included to acknowledge the complexities of gender studies in contemporary society. The essays in the reader represent the best feminist scholarship in the field of higher education that fall under five main themes: Theoretical and Research Perspectives; Context: Historical, Social, and Institutional; Feminist Theoretical and Research Perspectives; Women as Academic Leaders, Faculty and Students; Comparative and International Perspectives; Feminist Pedagogy and Curriculum Transformation. Features include:
Comprehensive and contemporary readings designed to appeal to a wide readership in the field of higher educationIncorporates new sections on critical policy studies, global feminism, and feminist research methodsAll selections are written by authors with considerable reputations as feminist scholarsThe selections represent much of the outstanding research now being done to expand the knowledge base of feminist theory and research methodologyIncludes a new section on how to use the reader as a teaching tool
- ISBN10 0536609748
- ISBN13 9780536609748
- Publish Date 9 August 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 December 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pearson Education Limited
- Imprint Prentice-Hall
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 566
- Language English