Coming of Age in Academe - Rekindling Women's Hopes and Reforming the Academy (Hardcover)

At what price entry? Philosopher of education Jane Roland Martin contends that feminist scholars have traded in their idealism for a place in the academy. In Coming of Age in Academe, she looks at the ways that academic feminists have become estranged from women. Determining that this is the "membership fee" the academy exacts on all its members, she calls for the academy's transformation. Part one explores the chilly research climate for feminist scholars, the academic traps of essentialism and aerial distance, and the education gap in the feminist text. In part two, Martin likens the behavior of present-day feminist scholars to nineteenth-century immigrants to the United States and examines their assimilation into the world of work, politics and the professions. She finds that when you look at higher education, you see what a brutal filter of women it is. Part three highlights the academy's "brain drain" and its containment of women and then proposes actions both great and small that aim at fundamentalchange. In this rousing call to action, Martin concludes that the dissociation from women that the academy demands--its "entrance fee"--can only be stopped by radically reforming the gendered system on which the academy is based.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 1999
First published:	2000
Authors:	Jane Roland Martin
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	234
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-92487-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Promotions
LSN:	0-415-92487-1
Barcode:	9780415924870

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