Description
Book SynopsisHere is a useful and illustrative guide for those interested in the impact of feminist scholarship on traditional academic disciplines. This important book explores the changes that have taken place in the academic world as a result of feminist approaches to scholarship, including issues of staffing, organization, administration, recruitment, student support, faculty advancement, and learning. Appropriate for readers not familiar with feminist scholarship as well as for those who are deeply interested in the message of feminist scholarship, Foundations for a Feminist Restructuring of the Academic Disciplines comes out of the experiences of women who are intimately involved with feminist pedagogy and curriculum transformation. The contributors describe a variety of educational environments that feminists have established in the academy, reflecting various disciplines.This profoundly important book raises new questions about the bias in traditional education and challenges basi
Table of ContentsContents
Foreword
- Preface
- Feminism and Women’s Studies in the Academy
- Women’s Lives: Images and Realities
- Images of Women: A Literature Perspective
- Images of Women: Views From the Discipline of History
- Images of Women: An Economic Perspective
- “Men Do Not Do Housework”: The Image of Women in Political Science
- Images of Women in Psychology
- Images of Women: Reflections From the Medical Care System
- Directory of Curriculum Integration Resources
- Index
