Changing the Subject : Women in Higher Education

by Davies, Sue; Lubelska, Cathy; Quinn, Jocey

• ISBN13: 9780748402816
• ISBN10: 0748402810
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-12-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Franci

Summary

Changing the Subject: Women in Higher Education explores these fundamental questions and presents strategies for changing and challenging the mainstream curriculum in Higher Education. Drawing on experience, research and theory, the contributors explore the contradictions that have to be managed by women in academia. The chapters analyse the interrelationship between women's roles and status as workers in higher education, their experiences as teachers and students, their representation within the curriculum, and the tensions between life in and out of the academy. Differences and inequalities between women are confronted: what it is to be an 'ebony woman' in the 'ivory tower', for example, or to be 'caught between two worlds' as a mother and academic.
This diverse collection brings together everyday issues which women teaching and learning in higher education have themselves identified as important. It provides an opportunity to share the successes, struggles and practical strategies of women who are trying to change the 'subject' of higher education. This volume will be of relevance and interest to all those concerned with women's equality and wider educational issues on a personal and professional level.

Table of Contents

WHEN (Women in Higher Education Network)	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
The Experiences of Women in Higher Education	p. 13
Being Different is a Very Difficult Row to Hoe: Survival Strategies of Women Academics	p. 15
Caught Between Two Worlds: Mothers as Academics	p. 29
Ivory Towers and Ebony Women: The Experiences of Black Women in Higher Education	p. 42
Fighting Back or Biting Back? Lesbians in Higher Education	p. 58
Women in Higher Education: What Are We Doing to Ourselves?	p. 75
The Empowerment of Women in Higher Education	p. 89
Commonality and Difference: Theory and Practice	p. 91
Postgraduate Students: Empowering Ourselves	p. 101
Life Lines: Writing and Writer's Block in the Context of Women's Studies	p. 111
The Influence of Feminism on Black Women in the Higher Education Curriculum	p. 124
Empowering Disabled Women in Higher Education	p. 138
Women Challenging the Mainstream Curriculum in Higher Education	p. 147
Is a Feminist Pedagogy Possible?	p. 149
Transforming the Household: Mature Women Students and Access to Higher Education	p. 163
Health and Caring in a Feminist Context	p. 178
Transforming the Curriculum	p. 192
Contributors	p. 209
Index	p. 213
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