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Gender and Higher Education
Barbara J. . Ed(S): Bank
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Description for Gender and Higher Education
Paperback. Theoretically grounded and based on the newest research, Gender and Higher Education provides an excellent overview for students of higher education, gender studies, and sociology, as well as for anyone interested in the current state of scholarship and practice. Editor(s): Bank, Barbara J. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; JNM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 256 x 176 x 29. Weight in Grams: 806.
This comprehensive, encyclopedic review explores gender and its impact on American higher education across historical and cultural contexts. Challenging recent claims that gender inequities in U.S. higher education no longer exist, the contributors-leading experts in the field-reveal the many ways in which gender is embedded in the educational practices, curriculum, institutional structures, and governance of colleges and universities. This work features the latest theories, scholarship, research, and debates related to gender and higher education, including institutional diversity; academic majors and programs; extracurricular organizations such as sororities, fraternities, and women's centers; affirmative action and other higher educational policies; and a range ... Read more
This comprehensive, encyclopedic review explores gender and its impact on American higher education across historical and cultural contexts. Challenging recent claims that gender inequities in U.S. higher education no longer exist, the contributors-leading experts in the field-reveal the many ways in which gender is embedded in the educational practices, curriculum, institutional structures, and governance of colleges and universities. This work features the latest theories, scholarship, research, and debates related to gender and higher education, including institutional diversity; academic majors and programs; extracurricular organizations such as sororities, fraternities, and women's centers; affirmative action and other higher educational policies; and a range ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801897825
SKU
V9780801897825
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About Barbara J. . Ed(S): Bank
Barbara J. Bank is a professor emerita of sociology and women's studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She is the author of Contradictions in Women's Education: Traditionalism, Careerism, and Community at a Single-Sex College and editor of Gender and Education: An Encyclopedia.
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Gender and Higher Education provides an excellent overview for students of higher education, gender studies, and sociology, as well as for anyone interested in the current state of scholarship and practice... You will want to have this book in your library. Book Bargains and Previews 2011