Book review on gender and higher education: A collection of essays edited by Becy Ropers-Huilman analyzed

Type :

Book review

Pages :

9 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

04/30/2009

Category :

Philosophy & literature

Sub category :

Literature

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Summary :

Introduction
The academy's role in perpetuating gender norms or opposing them
The wage gap
The transformation of a short term part time solution to issues of affirmative action in hiring
The purpose of the anthology
Suggestions of Becky Ropers-Huilman
1. Female body dimorphism among university age students
Feminism in its many guises
The sex/gender system
The goal of current feminist discourses
Conceptualizing the 'university' as a singularity
Sports: exploiting racial minorities and contributing to violence
An essay by Ropers-Huilman and Denise Taliaferro
Conclsion
Reference

Abstract

This paper will provide a review of a collection of essays edited by Becky ropers-huilman entitled Gendered Futures in higher education. Critical Perspectives for Change. The book was published by the State University of New York Press, Albany, N.Y., in 2003. The paper will consider how this collection of essays contributes (or not) to this ongoing deconstructive, counter-hegemonic practice, necessary to disrupt the sex/gender system and to, as Stuart Hall maintains examine "concepts and ideas in a signifying field...meaning is relational, it can never be fixed and is subject to redefinition and reappropriation." (Hall in Lecture notes) The way that the book is organized, revealing debates within higher education concerning how to address the problem of gender inequalities, which many of the articles in different ways suggest remains very invisible despite feminist inroads into the academy, will be a point of analysis. The mixture of often competing viewpoints may in fact provide a kind of working text where debates are shown to be played out, pointing in its structuring itself to the needs as well as the collisions of positions and identity within academia in relation to class, gender, race, intersections.