Shattering the Myths - Women in Academe

In Shattering the Myths, Judith Glazer-Raymo uses a critical feminist perspective to examine women's progress in higher education since 1970. She contrasts the activism of the 1970s, the passivity of the 1980s, and the ambivalence and antipathy demonstrated toward feminism in the 1990s. These waves of change, she explains, were brought about by external forces, by generational differences among women, and by intellectual and ideological struggles within the women's movement and the larger academic culture. In tracing three decades of women's progress in the academy, the author provides data from a variety of sources on women's rank, salary, employment status, and education. The book also draws on the experience of women faculty and administrators as they articulate and reflect on the social, economic, political, and ideological contexts in which they work and the multiple influences on their professional and personal lives.

About the author

Judith Glazer-Raymo is a lecturer and fellow of the Higher and Postsecondary Education Program, Teachers College, Columbia University; a professor of education emerita at Long Island University. She is the recipient of the 2007 Leadership Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the author of Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Product details

• Authors: Glazer-raymo, Judith Glazer-Raymo, Glazer-Raymo Judith
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2001
• EAN: 9780801866418
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-6641-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Secondary Schools, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Schools, Higher education, tertiary education, Schools and pre-schools, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, EDUCATION / Schools / General