Unfinished Agendas: New and Continuing Gender Challenges in Higher Education (Paperback)

~ Judith Glazer-Raymo (Author)

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"This excellent volume offers a sobering assessment of women's situation in higher education." -- Choice

"Unfinished Agendas is an impressive follow-up to Glazer- Raymo's 1999 book Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe... This book achieves satisfying breadth without watering down what is a vitally important -- and complex -- topic for those concerned about the future of the academic workforce." -- Melissa McDaniels, Academe

"Masterfully handled... This book, published in the midst of a period of extreme financial turbulence, is a fine portrait of a set of institutions whose contribution to the students it serves may need reviewing." -- S.L. Sutherland, Times Higher Education

"Unfinished Agendas is a book that any scholar, leader, student, and staff member in higher education should read. Not only does the book provide valuable insight into the position of women... it also provides practical recommendations of ways to alter policies, discourses, practices, and cultures to move higher education in a more pluralistic direction." -- Linda Serra Hagedorn, Journal of College Student Retention

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This revealing volume examines the current role and status of women in higher education -- and suggests a direction for the future. Judith Glazer-Raymo and other distinguished scholars and administrators assess the progress of women in academe using three lenses: the feminist agenda as a work in progress, growing internal and external challenges to women's advancement, and the need for active engagement with the challenges at hand.

Drawing on the latest research, the contributors explore issues faced by women as newly minted Ph.D.s, as faculty members, as administrators, and as academic leaders. They describe women's struggles with the multiple and often conflicting demands of productivity, accountability, family-work responsibility, and the subconscious "dance of identities" within a variety of cultural contexts.

Shedding light on the past, present, and future of women in higher education, this authoritative book concludes with recommendations for meeting new and ongoing gender challenges in the next decade.

Contributors: Ana M. Martínez Alemán, Boston College; Rita Bornstein, Rollins College; M. Kate Callahan, Temple University; Judith Glazer-Raymo, Teachers College, Columbia University; Steven Hubbard, New York University; Kimberley LeChasseur, Temple University; Amy Scott Metcalfe, University of British Columbia; Anna Neumann, Teachers College, Columbia University; Tamsyn Phifer, Teachers College, Columbia University; Becky Ropers-Huilman, University of Minnesota; Kathleen M. Shaw, Pennsylvania Department of Education; Sheila Slaughter, University of Georgia; Frances K. Stage, New York University; Aimee LaPointe Terosky, Teachers College, Columbia University; Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner, Arizona State University; Kelly Ward, Washington State University; Lisa Wolf-Wendel, University of Kansas

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Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; illustrated edition edition (May 28, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0801888638
• ISBN-13: 978-0801888632
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #714,019 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Women in Higher Education, January 14, 2009

By	M. Saint-Germain "msaintg" (California, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This excellent volume offers a sobering assessment of women's situation in higher education. Glazer-Raymo (Teacher's College, Columbia Univ.) covers the entire broad spectrum of gender issues bedeviling academic women, not only overt and covert discrimination but also academic capitalism, teaching and learning as a gift economy, and university benefits as a double-edged sword. While the first chapter provides a comprehensive legal and political analysis of the status of women in higher education over the past 40 years, subsequent chapters include other methodologies such as analysis of secondary data as well as interviews, surveys, case studies, and longitudinal tracking that generate primary data. The authors bring widely different theoretical frameworks and voices to their subjects, (e.g., in chapters on the "dance of identities," or on feminist perspectives on work and family). Other chapters focus on the challenges facing academic women in research universities; the surprising origins of women with doctorates in science and engineering (STEM) fields; and the increasing presence of women as college presidents and on governing boards. In sum, women have made progress, and there is some basis for cautious optimism, but much work also remains on old as well as new challenges. Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels. -- M. A. Saint-Germain, California State University, Long Beach