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Critical Approaches to Women and Gender in Higher Education

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Offers a complex view of women’s issues and gender in higher education
  • Includes the diverse perspective of stakeholders to expand on critical thinking about gender in campus settings
  • Highlights examples of how different groups are challenging traditional concepts of gender in higher education and offers new ideas and implications for practice

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
  2. Introduction

    • Pamela L. Eddy, Tehmina Khwaja, Kelly Ward
    Pages 1-10
  3. Leaders and Organizations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. Conditions Enabling Women’s Leadership in Community Colleges

      • Amy Martin, KerryAnn O’Meara
      Pages 61-86
    3. Higher Education Policy: Disrupting the Structures that Bind Us

      • Susan V. Iverson, Elizabeth J. Allan
      Pages 87-112
  4. Faculty and Staff

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
    2. Troubling Gender Norms and the Ideal Worker in Academic Life

      • Jaime Lester, Margaret W. Sallee
      Pages 115-138
    3. Feminist Faculty: Striving to Be Heard

      • Jeni Hart
      Pages 163-189
    4. Generational Dispositions of Women Faculty: A Critical Examination

      • Ana M. MartĂ­nez Alemán
      Pages 215-234
  5. Looking Forward

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 323-323

About this book

This volume provides a critical examination of the status of women and gender in higher education today. Despite the increasing numbers of women in higher education, gendered structures continue to hinder women’s advancement in academia. This book goes beyond the numbers to examine the issues facing those members of academia with non-dominant gender identities.  The authors analyze higher education structures from a range of perspectives and offer recommendations at individual and institutional levels to encourage activism and advance equality in academia.

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA

    Pamela L. Eddy

  • Washington State University, Pullman, USA

    Kelly Ward

  • Comsats Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Tehmina Khwaja

About the editors

Pamela L. Eddy is Professor of Higher Education at the College of William and Mary, USA.  


Kelly Ward is Professor of Higher Education and Chair of Educational Leadership, Sport Studies, and Counseling/Educational Psychology at Washington State University, USA. 


Tehmina Khwaja is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology in Islamabad, Pakistan. 


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Critical Approaches to Women and Gender in Higher Education

  • Editors: Pamela L. Eddy, Kelly Ward, Tehmina Khwaja

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59285-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59284-2Published: 13 January 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59285-9Published: 12 January 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 390

  • Topics: Higher Education, Gender and Education

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