Gender and Academe [Hardcover]

Sara Munson Deats (Author), Lagretta Tallent Lenker (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0847679691 | ISBN-13: 978-0847679690 | Publication Date: September 28, 1994

This collection of new essays from 29 feminist scholars in a range of humanities and social science disciplines argues that pedagogical methods, as well as curricula and textbooks, should reflect feminist theories and emphases. At the same time, the scholars demonstrate that feminists can advocate both hierarchy and equality, authority and freedom, order and flexibility, objectivity and subjectivity, reason and feeling, without being guilty of philosophical treason. Contributors:

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Deats and LenKer have clearly produced a winner. These remarkably varied essays will spark many lively discussions of this significant contemporary issue. Expect to find this resource in every women's studies program. (Helen Popovich )

These essays explore a wide range of issues--the content of curriculum , classroom pedagogy, and relationships with students and offer personal accounts of women's journeys in colleges and universities...and thus offer a valuable accout of the range of feminist teaching practices and reflections of pedagogy. (Kathleen Weiler )

About the Author

Sara Munson Deats is Director of the English Graduate Program and Co-Director of the Center for Applied Humanities at the University of South Florida. Lagretta Tallent Lenker is Co-Director of the Center for Applied Humanities and Acting Director of the Division of Lifelong Learning at the University of South Florida. Deats and Lenker are Co-editors, most recently, of The Aching Hearth: Family Violence in Life and Literature (Plenum Press, 1992).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 370 pages
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (September 28, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0847679691
• ISBN-13: 978-0847679690
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,548,410 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Feminism in Higher Education, April 27, 2000

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This review is from: Gender and Academe (Hardcover)

Without a doubt, this book offers some helpful and provocative thoughts about feminism in higher education. Although the title leads one to believe that the book will cover many disciplines, it primarily focuses on feminism in literature courses. Nonetheless, the book is still valuable both as a pedagogical and feminist reference source. This book is a compilation of essays by many authors so the reader can pick and choose whichever ones interest her. Many pertinent topics are discussed in these essays including the nature of personal writing, how submissions to feminist journals can possibly derail one's career, and how one can be a catalyst for change in the classroom and out.