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Informationen zum Autor LOUISE MORLEY is Lecturer and Director of Graduate Studies in the Institute of Education at the University of Sussex, UK. Her previous posts were at the University of Reading and in equal opportunities work for the Inner London Education Authority. She has been involved with Women's Studies both in the UK, and on an international basis. She has published widely on feminist education, power, policy, equity and empowerment in higher and professional education and public service organizations. Recent publications include Feminist Academics: Creative Agents For Change and Breaking Boundaries: Women in Higher Education (both co-edited with Val Walsh). She is currently writing a book, with Naz Rassool, on equity and school effectiveness. Klappentext This study of feminism, equity and change in the academy is based on interviews with 40 feminist academics and students in Britain, Sweden and Greece. The research attempts to decode and disentangle gendered message systems and the matrix of power relations in the academy. It consists of feminist readings of the micro-processes of everyday practices. Change is interrogated in relation to feminist pedagogy, equity, organizational culture, policies and discourses of New Right reform, mass expansion and new managerialism. Zusammenfassung This study of feminism! equity and change in the academy is based on interviews with 40 feminist academics and students in Britain! Sweden and Greece. Change is interrogated in relation to feminist pedagogy! equity! organizational culture! policies and discourses of New Right reform! mass expansion and new managerialism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Micropolitics of Academic Feminism The Challenges of Feminist Research Equity and Change in Higher Education Feminism and Equity: Political Partners or Discordant Discourses? Between the Lines: Gender and Organization Power, Pedagogy and Empowerment Feminist Students: Radicalism, Rights and Resistance Feminist Academics: Disruption, Development and Disciplines Concluding Comments: the Dangers of Certainty References Index...
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Introduction: The Micropolitics of Academic Feminism The Challenges of Feminist Research Equity and Change in Higher Education Feminism and Equity: Political Partners or Discordant Discourses? Between the Lines: Gender and Organization Power, Pedagogy and Empowerment Feminist Students: Radicalism, Rights and Resistance Feminist Academics: Disruption, Development and Disciplines Concluding Comments: the Dangers of Certainty References Index
