Powerful Subjects by Jocey Quinn
The mass participation of women students has literally changed the face of Higher Education, but this is the first work to explore the radical significance of this transformation. The book charts women's new role as the normal student in the global university. It examines how the malestream curriculum has responded to women's move from minority to majority and the development of feminist ideas: has knowledge itself been transformed?Using in-depth case studies of diverse women studying in the UK, the book explores the interplay between access, curriculum and women's power, or lack of it, in the world outside the university. Lively, innovative and multi-dimensional, it probes questions of gender, generation, class, misogyny and racism, drawing on multiple theories to push at the boundaries of educational research.
Taking up current media controversy about female success and class divisions in education, Are Women Taking over the University will excite the general reader as well as students, policy makers, educational researchers and those interested in feminist ideas.
Jocey Quinn is Professor of Education at the University of Plymouth, UK, and former Professor at the Institute for Policy Studies in Education at London Metropolitan University, UK. She is also Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter, UK.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781858562797 |
| ISBN 10 | 1858562791 |
| Title | Powerful Subjects |
| Author | Jocey Quinn |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Institute of Education Press |
| Year published | 2003-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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