Breaking Boundaries: Women in Higher Education. Gender and Higher Education Series

Essays from women in higher education, organized around two major themes: diversity, equity, and change, and feminism in the academy, and with an emphasis on these issues in the United Kingdom, include: "Women and Careers in Higher Education: What Is the Problem?" (Christine Heward); "...

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Main Authors Morley, Louise, Ed, Walsh, Val, Ed
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis 1996
Subjects
Activism
Age Differences
Aging (Individuals)
Blacks
Business Administration Education
Careers
Change Agents
College Faculty
Deafness
Disabilities
Educational Trends
Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Females
Feminism
Foreign Countries
Graduate Study
Higher Education
Interdisciplinary Approach
Mothers
Older Adults
Sex Differences
Sex Discrimination
Sex Fairness
Teacher Attitudes
Trend Analysis
United Kingdom
Women Faculty
Womens Education
United Kingdom
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Summary:Essays from women in higher education, organized around two major themes: diversity, equity, and change, and feminism in the academy, and with an emphasis on these issues in the United Kingdom, include: "Women and Careers in Higher Education: What Is the Problem?" (Christine Heward); "In the Prime of Their Lives? Older Women in Higher Education" (Meg Maguire); "Activists as Change Agents: Achievements and Limitations" (Liz Price and Judy Priest); "Good Practices, Bad Attitudes: An Examination of the Factors Influencing Women's Academic Careers" (Jane Kettle); "Deaf Women Academics in Higher Education" (Ruth-Elaine Gibson); "Women in Management Education: The Token Topic?" (Pat Hornby and Sue Shaw); "Struggling for Inclusion: Black Women in Professional and Management Education" (Catharine Ross); "Equal Opportunities and Higher Education" (Maggie Humm); "Irish Women in Higher Education in England: From Invisibility to Recognition" (Breda Gray and Louise Ryan); "Interrogating Patriarchy: The Challenges of Feminist Research" (Louise Morley); "Interdisciplinary Ideals and Institutional Impediments: A Case Study of Postgraduate Provision" (Elizabeth Bird); "The Power of Numbers: Quantitative Data and Equal Opportunities Research" (Mairead Dunne); "Women and Disability in Higher Education: A Literature Search" (Alessandra Iantaffi); "Terms of Engagement: Pedagogy as a Healing Politic" (Val Walsh); and "Mothering and Education: Reflexivity and Feminist Methodology" (Miriam David, Jackie Davies, Rosalind Edwards, Diane Reay, and Kay Standing). (Most selections contain references.) (MSE)
ISBN:0748405208
9780748405206