Management and Gender in Higher Education (Hardcover)

This book is a definitive examination of higher education: locating it in a wider neo-liberal context involving the state and the market, with a specific focus on recent higher policy and on the elite group of senior managers in universities. Written in a clear accessible style, it provides an in-depth analysis of university structures, cultures and practices at senior management level. Despite the managerialist rhetoric of accountability, we see structures where access to power is through the Presidents' 'blessing', very much as in a medieval court. We see a culture that is less than comfortable with the presence of women, and which, in its narratives, stereotypes and interactions exemplifies to a rather nineteenth-century view of women. Sites and sources of change are also identified. In a global context where diversity is crucial to innovation, it challenges us to critically reflect on management and on higher education. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Irish Society
Release date:	March 2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	Pat O'Connor
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-8358-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Universities / polytechnics Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	0-7190-8358-3
Barcode:	9780719083587

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