Social SciencesHigher EducationSociologyFeminist TheoryGender HistoryWomen's StudiesFeminist EpistemologyFeminist PhilosophyGender InclusionStandpoint TheoryWomen In Higher EducationWomen's EducationCritical Knowledge ProductionGender In Higher EducationInterdisciplinary KnowledgeParticipatory Knowledge ProductionWomen's Access To Higher EducationWomen's Educational InclusionWomen’s Access To Higher EducationWomen’s Participation In Universities
This uniquely interdisciplinary study offers a provocative, contemporary look at the ‘Woman Question’ in relation to higher education at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Leading feminist scholars from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines — including history, philosophy, education, psychology, sociology, and economics — evaluate the role of biology, discrimination, and choice in rationalizing women’s exclusion from fully participating in the process of knowledge production, as well as examining institutional impediments. Contextualizing arguments against women’s inclusion and including contemporary perspectives on gender, this book offers a rich, multi-layered examination and critical insights into understanding the near universal difficulties that women encounter as they seek to participate fully in the process of knowledge production.