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The ’Woman Question’ and Higher Education: Perspectives on Gender and Knowledge Production in America

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Edited by Ann Mari May


Edward Elgar Publishing Inc.
HB 9781847204011
$95.00

March 2008

’These outstanding essays by eminent scholars provide sophisticated and highly readable analyses of the causes of women’s exclusion from full participation in knowledge production today. From multiple disciplinary perspectives, the authors examine the roles of biology, institutional impediments, discrimination, and women’s choices. A “must read” for all concerned with the role of women in contemporary higher education.’– Myra H. Strober, Stanford University

These essays offer fresh insights on the question of the paucity of women in higher education and together form a thoughtful and contemporary response to Lawrence Summers and the â??Woman Question’ in the twenty-first century. Leading feminist scholars from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines — including history, philosophy, education, psychology, sociology, and economics — evaluate the role of biology, discrimination, and choice in rationalizing women’s exclusion from fully participating in the process of knowledge production, as well as examining institutional impediments. Contextualizing arguments against women’s inclusion and including contemporary perspectives on gender, this book offers a rich, multi-layered examination and critical insights into understanding the nearly universal difficulties that women encounter as they seek to participate fully in the process of knowledge production.

This book addresses one of the most compelling topics of our time and speaks to our need to understand the long struggle of women to gain an authoritative voice in higher education and the factors that underlie that struggle. Scholars and researchers of women’s studies, higher education, and a range of humanities and social sciences will find this book a welcome addition to the literature.

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