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16 of the Best Books and Articles on: Women in Higher Education

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Women, Power, and the Academy: From Rhetoric to Reality » Read Now
by Mary-Louise Kearney. 118 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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Women of Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove » Read Now
by Nadya Aisenberg, Mona Harrington. 210 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...salaries--higher for men, lower for women--operates...professional lines. In other words...specialist in theories of education, made a...as many women...
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Everyday Knowledge and Uncommon Truths: Women of the Academy » Read Now
by Linda K. Christian-Smith, Kristine S. Kellor. 238 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Everyday Knowledge & Uncommon Truths draws on the life experience & varied backgrounds of academic women from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, & Canada. The book addresses a variety of issues pertaining to women's home lives, education, teaching, research, writing, & activism. To provide...
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Everyday Knowledge & Uncommon Truths draws on the life experience & varied backgrounds of academic women from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, & Canada. The book addresses a variety of issues pertaining to women's home lives, education, teaching, research, writing, & activism. To provide diverse perspectives on women's experiences of being & knowing in & outside the academy, contributors draw on a range of critical approaches derived from feminism, post-structuralism, postmodernism, critical education theory, discourse theory & analysis, narrative inquiry & life histories.
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Perspectives on Minority Women in Higher Education » Read Now
by Lynne Brodie Welch. 168 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Ethnic minority women in America's education system often feel that they have "two strikes against them." This volume brings together contributions by African-American, Hispanic, and other scholars who discuss various issues surrounding academic minority women, their dilemmas, and the roles they...
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Ethnic minority women in America's education system often feel that they have "two strikes against them." This volume brings together contributions by African-American, Hispanic, and other scholars who discuss various issues surrounding academic minority women, their dilemmas, and the roles they create for their successors. Subjects include the need for sensitization to cultural differences and methods for dealing with subtle and overt discrimination. The contributors call for support and networking systems, and make suggestions for conflict resolution.
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Women in American Education, 1820-1955: The Female Force and Educational Reform » Read Now
by June Edwards. 160 pgs.

Collections: History, Education, Entire Library
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A Broken Silence: Voices of African American Women in the Academy » Read Now
by Lena Wright Myers. 127 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

This book addresses the interlocking systems of race and gender in institutions of higher education in America. The study is based on empirical data from African American women of various disciplines in faculty and administrative positions at traditionally white colleges and universities. It focuses...
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This book addresses the interlocking systems of race and gender in institutions of higher education in America. The study is based on empirical data from African American women of various disciplines in faculty and administrative positions at traditionally white colleges and universities. It focuses primarily on narratives of the women in terms of how they are affected by racism, as well as sexism as they perform their duties in their academic environments. The findings suggest that a common thread exists relative to the experiences of the women. The book challenges and dispels the myth that Black progress has led to equality for African American women in the academy.
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Black Women in the Academy: Promises and Perils » Read Now
by Lois Benjamin. 360 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

"(Addresses) the status, acceptance, progression, and teaching of black women.... Gives insight into the totality of the African American woman's experience in the academy" -- Shelley Goode, Spelman College
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Women of Color in Academe: Living with Multiple Marginality, in Journal of Higher Education » Read Now
by Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner. 20 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...academic womens leadership. Women in Higher Education, 9(6), 1-2. Collins, P...Asian Pacific American women in higher education: Claiming visibility and...Ropers-Huliman...
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Gender Roles and Faculty Lives in Rhetoric and Composition » Read Now
by Theresa Enos. 148 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...for her support of women in higher education, did not in fact...do have shows that women are now the ma jority...tenure-track writing faculty in higher education. If we...
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The Pursuit of Race and Gender Equity in American Academe » Read Now
by Stephanie L. Witt. 110 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

This volume examines American attitudes toward affirmative action policies through an extensive study of a national sample of university faculty. The author offers new insights into the competing values in American society which the policy of affirmative action serves to bring into conflict and...
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This volume examines American attitudes toward affirmative action policies through an extensive study of a national sample of university faculty. The author offers new insights into the competing values in American society which the policy of affirmative action serves to bring into conflict and finds important differences in the perceptions of white males as opposed to those of protected categorical groups in regard to affirmative action. The analysis also includes an extended treatment of the impact of recent Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action.
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Women in Higher Education: Empowering Change » Read Now
by Joann Digeorgio-Lutz. 184 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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Women and Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Some Feminist and Global Perspectives, in NWSA Journal » Read Now
by Annette Kolodny. 18 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Women and Higher Education in the Twenty-first...legislation and success in getting talented women into the higher education pipeline, by themselves...Documents the Status...
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Scaling the Ivory Tower: Stories from Women in Business School Faculties » Read Now
by Dianne Cyr, Blaize Horner Reich. 202 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

The detailed life stories of nine women academics in North American business faculties--three in their early careers, three at tenure time, and three who are recognized leaders in their field. Their stories are interpreted as a set of choices, and the insights and strategies are developed for the reader.
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Affirmative Action and the University: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Higher Education Employment » Read Now
by Kul B. Rai, John W. Critzer. 250 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Affirmative Action and the University is the only full-length study to examine the impact of affirmative action on all higher education hiring practices. Drawing on data provided by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education...
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Affirmative Action and the University is the only full-length study to examine the impact of affirmative action on all higher education hiring practices. Drawing on data provided by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, the authors summarize, track, and evaluate changes in the gender and ethnic makeup of academic and nonacademic employees at private and public colleges and universities from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. Separate chapters assess changes in employment opportunities for white women, blacks, Asians, Hispanics, and Native Americans.
The authors look at the extent to which a two-tier employment system exists. In such a system minorities and women are more likely to make their greatest gains in non-elite positions rather than in faculty and administrative positions. The authors also examine differences in hiring practices between public and private colleges and universities.
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Women in Higher Education » Read Now
by W. Todd Furniss, Patricia Albjerg Graham. 338 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...WOMEN IN HIGHER EDUCATION WOMEN IN HIGHER EDUCATION Edited by W. TODD FURNISS PATRICIA ALBJERG GRAHAM...Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Women in...
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Degrees of Equality: The American Association of University Women and the Challenge of Twentieth-Century Feminism » Read Now
by Susan Levine. 227 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is one of the nation's oldest and most influential voices for equality in education, the professions, and public life. Tracing the history of the AAUW, Susan Levine provides a new perspective on the meaning of feminism for women in mainstream...
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The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is one of the nation's oldest and most influential voices for equality in education, the professions, and public life. Tracing the history of the AAUW, Susan Levine provides a new perspective on the meaning of feminism for women in mainstream organizations. In so doing, she explores the problems that women confront and the strategies they have developed to achieve equal rights. By examining the experience of groups like AAUW, Levine suggests that feminism was not so much "reborn" in the 1970s as it was adopted by a rapidly growing constituency of college educated women demanding the realization of their goals.
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