Evolution of American Women''s Studies - Reflections on Triumphs, Controversies, and Change

Informationen zum Autor ALICE E. GINSBERG is the author of Gender in Urban Education: Strategies for Student Achievement (2005) and Gender and Educational Philanthropy (Palgrave, 2007) and is currently an independent education consultant. Klappentext This book is comprised of reflections by diverse women's studies scholars, focusing on the many ways in which the field has evolved from its first introduction in the University setting to the present day. Zusammenfassung This book is comprised of reflections by diverse women's studies scholars! focusing on the many ways in which the field has evolved from its first introduction in the University setting to the present day. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword; A.Kimmich Introduction; A.E.Ginsberg Women's Studies 1970's to the 21st Century; A.E.Ginsberg A Personal and Epistemological Journey Towards Women's Studies; M.Smith Crocco Women's Studies: A View From the Margins; B.Guy-Sheftall Women Studies The Early Years: When Sisterhood was Powerful; P.Rothenberg What Took Me So Long?: A Well-Behaved Woman Finds Women's Studies; J.McLean Taylor Gender at the Center: The Making of an Educator; J oan Poliner Shapiro On Being a Pre-Feminist Feminist OR How I Came to Women's Studies and What I Did There; E.Torton Beck Women's Studies, Systems of Oppression and Privilege, and Cultivating Accountability; A.Russo My Life and Work in Women's Studies (Now Gender Studies); J.Lorber Continuity and Change in Women's Studies Programs: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward; C.Alejandra Elenes Women's Studies, Health, and Science:  Evolution from Separation to the Beginnings of Integration; S.V.Rosser Reflections on a Feminist Career; N.A.Naples What Year Is It?; J.Fox O'Barr

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• Authors: A Ginsberg, A. Ginsberg, Alice E. Ginsberg, GINSBERG ALICE E
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.2009
• EAN: 9780230605794
• ISBN: 978-0-230-60579-4
• No. of pages: 239
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Gender Studies, Sociology of Education, Education, Sociology, geology, History of Education, Conservation Biology, Nature Conservation, Conservation of the environment, Gender studies, gender groups, Social research & statistics, Educational sociology, Education—History, Education and sociology, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Structural Geology, Geomorphology & geological surface processes, Gender and Education, Gender identity in education