1st Edition

Identity and Difference in Higher Education Outsiders within

Edited By Pauline Anderson, Jenny Williams Copyright 2001
    206 Pages
    by Routledge

    206 Pages
    by Routledge

    This title was first published in 2001. This volume brings together contributions from a group of authors who explore the themes of identity and difference in the context of a range of power relationships within higher education.

    Section 1: Identity and Difference in Higher Education: The Context 1 Identity and Difference: Concepts and Themes 2 Mass Higher Education: The Construction of Difference 3 Mass Higher Education: Feminist Pedagogy in the Learning Society Section 2: Students in Post-Compulsory Education 4 ‘I’m Doing It for All of Us’: Gender and Identity in the Transition to Higher Education 5 Education: What’s in it for Mature Women? 6 Disabled Women Enter the Academy 7 Insiders and/or Outsiders: Black Female Voices from the Academy 8 Negotiating Identities: Women’s Studies Students, Transferable Skills and Learning Outcomes 9 Narratives of a Gendered Self: Class, Interiority and Women’s Educational Desires Section 3: Reflections from Feminist Academics: Researching and Teaching in HE 10 ‘Isn’t He Good, but Can We Take Her Seriously?’: Gendered Expectations in Higher Education 11 Betwixt and Between: C/ossifying Identities in Higher Education 12 Black Women in Ivory Towers: Racism and Sexism in the Academy 13 Surviving the Academic Alienation of Black Women 14 Common Beginnings, Differing Conclusions

    Biography

    Anderson, Pauline; Williams, Jenny