The 'woman question' and higher education
Subtitle: perspectives on gender and knowledge production in America
By: edited by Ann Mari May ; with a foreword by Alice Kessler-Harris.
Contributors: May, Ann Mari, 1956-
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781847204011
Subjects: Women -- Education (Higher) -- United States -- History; Sex discrimination against women -- United States -- History; Sex discrimination in education -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [156]-176) and index.
Table of contents: title: The body in the library / Helen Lefkowitz Hororwitz; title: Gender, biology, and the incontrovertible logic of choice / Ann Mari May; title: Gender, professional knowledge, and institutional power : women social scientists and the research university / Mary Ann Dzuback; title: The missing women in higher education : a case study of culture crossing / Jane Roland Martin; title: Women in science, and elsewhere / Virginia Valian; title: Are smart men smarter than smart women? : the epistemology of ignorance, women, and the production of knowledge / Carla Fehr; title: Re-framing the discussion : how white male supremacy continues to obscure the realities of gender in higher education / Elizabeth Higginbotham; title: The faculty time divide / Jerry A. Jacobs.