Overview

In this analysis, 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.

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Author:   Judith Glazer-Raymo
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780801866418

ISBN 10:   0801866413
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   01 March 2001
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Preface Acknowledgments The Personal and the Professional: Becoming a Feminist The Academic Pipeline and the Academic Labor Market Leveling the Playing Field: Tenure and Salaries Women in the Professions Women Who Lead: The Glass Ceiling Phenomenon Implementing Change: Campus Commissions and Feminist Pedagogy Conclusions References Index

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<p> Shattering the Myths is an unsettling book for women and should be the same for men. In essence, little has changed in the last 30 years to substantively improve the status of women in higher education and other professions or the cultural underpinnings that would make status advancement possible... Well researched.--Susan R. Griffith Planning for Higher Education (01/01/0001)

<p> Shattering the Myths is an unsettling book for women and should be the same for men. In essence, little has changed in the last 30 years to substantively improve the status of women in higher education and other professions or the cultural underpinnings that would make status advancement possible... Well researched. -- Susan R. Griffith, Planning for Higher Education

An extremely important book... Glazer-Raymo demonstrates that although gender discrimination has evolved and now appears in different forms, it nonetheless remains a characteristic feature of academe, and women academics continue to pay a disproportionate price. -- Florence A. Hamrick Journal of Higher Education [Glazer-Raymo] blends a life history approach with the current statistical results of large research studies. NWSA Journal I highly recommend this book. It is useful for everyone in higher education, particularly for women who may find the information and stories resonating with their own lives. The author successfully deconstructs higher education using a feminist perspective and provides suggestions for future action. Community College Journal of Research and Practice An insightful and critical analysis of the status of women in higher education during the past 25 years. -- Carol J. Auster Gender and Society Shattering the Myths is an unsettling book for women and should be the same for men. In essence, little has changed in the last 30 years to substantively improve the status of women in higher education and other professions or the cultural underpinnings that would make status advancement possible... Well researched. -- Susan R. Griffith Planning for Higher Education

<p>Shattering the Myths is an unsettling book for women and should be the same for men. In essence, little has changed in the last 30 years to substantively improve the status of women in higher education and other professions or the cultural underpinnings that would make status advancement possible... Well researched.--Susan R. Griffith Planning for Higher Education (01/01/0001)

Author Information

Judith Glazer-Raymo is a professor of education on the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University. She is the author of A Teaching Doctorate? The Doctor of Arts, Then and Now and The Master's Degree: Tradition, Diversity, Innovation and co-editor of Women in Higher Education: A Feminist Perspective.

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