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The 'woman question' and higher education : perspectives on gender and knowledge production in America / edited by Ann Mari May ; with a foreword by Alice Kessler-Harris.

Contributor(s): May, Ann Mari, 1956-.
Publisher: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2008Description: xviii, 181 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781848444591 (pbk.) :; 1848444591 (pbk.) :; 9781847204011 (hardcover); 1847204015 (hardcover).Other title: Perspectives on gender and knowledge production in America.Subject(s): Women -- Education (Higher) -- United States -- History | Sex discrimination against women -- United States -- History | Sex discrimination in education -- United States -- History
Contents:
The body in the library / Helen Lefkowitz Hororwitz -- Gender, biology, and the incontrovertible logic of choice / Ann Mari May -- Gender, professional knowledge, and institutional power : women social scientists and the research university / Mary Ann Dzuback -- The missing women in higher education : a case study of culture crossing / Jane Roland Martin -- Women in science, and elsewhere / Virginia Valian -- Are smart men smarter than smart women? : the epistemology of ignorance, women, and the production of knowledge / Carla Fehr -- Re-framing the discussion : how white male supremacy continues to obscure the realities of gender in higher education / Elizabeth Higginbotham -- The faculty time divide / Jerry A. Jacobs.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [156]-176) and index.

The body in the library / Helen Lefkowitz Hororwitz -- Gender, biology, and the incontrovertible logic of choice / Ann Mari May -- Gender, professional knowledge, and institutional power : women social scientists and the research university / Mary Ann Dzuback -- The missing women in higher education : a case study of culture crossing / Jane Roland Martin -- Women in science, and elsewhere / Virginia Valian -- Are smart men smarter than smart women? : the epistemology of ignorance, women, and the production of knowledge / Carla Fehr -- Re-framing the discussion : how white male supremacy continues to obscure the realities of gender in higher education / Elizabeth Higginbotham -- The faculty time divide / Jerry A. Jacobs.

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