Gendered Futures in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives for Change

by Becky Ropers-Huilman

Overview

This volume addresses the ways in which gender takes shape in and is shaped by higher education environments. Focusing on historical knowledge and contemporary experience, the contributors identify several key gender issues affecting students, faculty, and leaders in higher education. They examine such diverse topics as what lessons women's colleges have to offer, violence on campus, women faculty and part-time employment, and intersecting identities of race and gender, and they apply critical perspectives to suggest needed change. While they may not agree on the necessary strategies to improve higher education environments, they do agree that those environments are currently deeply and problematically gendered.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780791486993
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	09/18/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	578 KB

About the Author

Becky Ropers-Huilman is Associate Professor of Higher Education and Women’s and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University. She is the author of Feminist Teaching in Theory and Practice: Situating Power and Knowledge in Poststructural Classrooms and the coeditor (with Judith Glazer-Raymo and Barbara K. Townsend) of Women in Higher Education: A Feminist Perspective, Second Edition.

Table of Contents

Gender in the Future of Higher Education
Becky Ropers-Huilman

PART I. LEARNING FROM THE PAST

1. From Whence They Came: The Contexts, Challenges, and Courage of Early Women Administrators in Higher Education
Jana Nidiffer

2. Gender and Higher Education: What Should We Learn from Women’s Colleges?
Lisa Wolf-Wendel

PART II. DECONSTRUCTING THE PRESENT: STUDENT LIVES

3. Stepping off the Scale: Promoting Positive Body Image in College Students
Laura Hensley

4. The Gender of Violence on Campus
William F. Pinar

PART III. DECONSTRUCTING THE PRESENT: FACULTY LIVES

5. Women Faculty and Part-Time Employment: The Impact of Public Policy
Judith Glazer-Raymo

6. Future Prospects for Women Faculty: Negotiating Work and Family
Lisa Wolf-Wendel and Kelly Ward

7. Negotiating Identities and Making Change: Feminist Faculty in Higher Education
Becky Ropers-Huilman and Monisa Shackelford

PART IV. RE-CONCEIVING THE FUTURE

8. Advocacy Education: Teaching, Research and Difference in Higher Education
Becky Ropers-Huilman and Denise Taliaferro

9. Gender, Race and Millennial Curiosity
Ana M. Martínez Alemán

Contributors
Index