More women are receiving advanced degrees and ascending to the ranks of deans, provosts, and presidents, but despite gains in advancing gender equality, efforts at true empowerment are still met with significant resistance within academia. The contributors to this collection are committed to promoting the issue of gender and empowering women in higher education.
The approach of this book is both theoretical and applied. On one level it evaluates pedagogy from the perspective of what we teach, how we teach, and curriculum development that enables and empowers women. On the other level it examines the institutional barriers that continue to exist that thwart the educational development of women while also examining the areas in which institutional support does promote efforts toward change.
Women are the growing majority population, yet women in higher education are not provided an equal education. This book includes strategies for change, teaching suggestions, and curriculum development ideas.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Expanding the Academic Knowledge Base: Helping Students to Cross Gender’s Great Divide
- 2 Teaching about Gender through Experience: A Pedagogy of Engagement
- 3 Homeless in Academia: Homesteading as a Strategy for Change in a World of Hegemonic Masculinity
- 4 Feminism and Interdisciplinarity
- 5 Women in Art: A Continuing Controversy
- 6 Radical Learning: A New Vision of Feminist Pedagogy
- 7 Beyond Gender and Heterosexuality: Teaching Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson in an Undergraduate Classroom
- 8 A Model for Evaluating Gender Equity in Academe
- 9 The Transformative Leadership of Women in Higher Education Administration
- 10 Institutional Barriers for Women Scientists and Engineers: What Four Years of Survey Data of National Science Foundation POWRE Awardees Reveal
- 11 The Backlash against Women’s Studies
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Contributors
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