Nancy S. Niemi

Degrees of Difference (eBook, ePUB)

Women, Men, and the Value of Higher Education

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume investigates the dissonance between the supposed advantage held by educated women and their continued lack of economic and political power. Niemi explains the developments of the so-called "female advantage" and "boy crisis" in American higher education, setting them alongside socioeconomic and racial developments in women's and men's lives throughout the last 40 years. Exploring the relationship between higher education credentials and their utility in creating political, economic, and social success, Degrees of Difference identifies ways in which gender and academic achievement contribute to women's and men's power to shape their lives. This important book brings new light to the issues of power, gender identities, and the role of American higher education in creating gender equity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315521794
• Artikelnr.: 48211064

Autorenporträt

Nancy S. Niemi is Director of Faculty Teaching Initiatives at the Center for Teaching and Learning at Yale University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter One College credentials as female disadvantage?
Chapter Two Power, patriarchy, and gender identity in higher education
Chapter Three We've been here before: Gendered realignments behind the ivy
Chapter Four The ambiguous "female advantage"
Chapter Five American men: Other places to be
Chapter Six Higher education, less power: Gender equity post-college
Chapter Seven A dream deterred?
References
Index