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Gender, Power and Higher Education in a Globalised World
eBook - Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
ISBN/EAN: 9783030696870
Umbreit-Nr.: 2813221
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 0 S., 2.73 MB
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 24.08.2021
Auflage: 1/2021
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- Zusatztext
- <p>This book examines persistent gender inequality in higher education, and asks what is preventing change from occurring. The editors and contributors argue that organizational resistance to gender equality is the key explanation; reflected in the endorsement of discourses such as excellence, choice, distorted intersectionality, revitalized biological essentialism and gender neutrality. These discourses implicitly and explicitly depict the status quo as appropriate, reasonable and fair: ultimately impeding efforts and attempts to promote gender equality. Drawing on research from around the world, this book explores the limits and possibilities of challenging these harmful discourses, focusing on the state and universities themselves as levers for change. It stresses the importance of institutional transformation, the vital contribution of feminist activists and the importance of womens deceptively small victories in the academy.</p>
- Autorenportrait
- <div><p><b>Pat OConnor</b>is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Limerick, Ireland, and Visiting Professor at the Geary Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland. She is a sociologist with a focus on gender equality in higher education institutions: particularly leadership, excellence, micropolitics, gender-based violence, equality related interventions and womens academic careers.</p><p><b>Kate White</b> is Adjunct Associate Professor at Federation University Australia and Director of the Women in Higher Education Management Network. Her research focuses on gender equality and leadership in higher education, womens academic careers and women in science.</p><br></div>