Challenges and Negotiations for Women in Higher Education
There is much ambivalence in women’s experience of the academy as teachers and students. Although today many more women follow academic careers than in the past, they do not find the welcome that they had hoped for and expected. Additionally, women students find that whilst they can now enter throug...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2007. |
| Series: | Lifelong Learning Book Series,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6110-3 |
Table of Contents:
- Ambivalent Positions in the Academy
- Challenging Women in the Male Academy: Think About Draining the Swamp
- Women: Mothers and Others:
- The Gendered Implications of Quality Assurance and Audit: Quality and Equality
- Process and Pedagogy at Work
- From Tangle to Web
- Strange Bedfellows
- Welcome to the Pleasure Dome
- Caring Monsters?
- Career – Identity – Home
- Distance Learners Juggling Home, Work and Study
- Three Ages of Woman
- Imaging ‘Career’
- Women and Work/Life Balance
- Final Comments and Reflections: The Challenges and Negotiations of Lifelong Learning for Women in Higher Education.