Women - Regional Studies, Women's Studies, Education - Social & Political Aspects, United States Studies, Feminism, United States History - General & Miscellaneous, Women's History, Regional Studies, Educational Theory, Research & History
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Overview
In Shattering the Myths, Judith Glazer-Raymo uses a critical feminist perspective to examine women's progress in higher education since 1970. She contrasts the activism of the 1970s, the passivity of the 1980s, and the ambivalence and antipathy demonstrated toward feminism in the 1990s. These waves of change, she explains, were brought about by external forces, by generational differences between women, and by intellectual and ideological struggles within the women's movement and the larger academic culture. The book draws on the experience of women faculty and administrators as they articulate and reflect on the social, economic, political, and ideological contexts in which they work and the multiple influences on their professional and personal lives.Editorials
NWSA Journal
[Glazer-Raymo] blends a life history approach with the current statistical results of large research studies.Community College Journal of Research and Practice
I highly recommend this book. It is useful for everyone in higher education, particularly for women who may find the information and stories resonating with their own lives. The author successfully deconstructs higher education using a feminist perspective and provides suggestions for future action.Sheila Slaughter
Judith Glazer-Raymo is the Susan Faludi of higher education, portraying the frustrated ambitions of women in the academy and the backlash against them. Everyone interested in what has happened to women in the academy during the past twenty years should read this important and insightful book.Booknews
Contrary to popular conceptions, Glazer-Raymo education, Long Island U. argues that women employed in higher education institutions suffer disparities with respect to men in almost every indicator of professional status, including rank, salary, tenure, job satisfaction, and working conditions. She explores the impact of the corporatization of universities, such as downsizing, restructuring, and policy termination, includes discussion of pertinent legal and legislative policy decisions, and concludes by advocating the strategies of gender bias commissions and feminist pedagogy to help alleviate some of the disparities she sees at all levels of higher education. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR booknews.comJournal of Higher Education
An extremely important book... Glazer-Raymo demonstrates that although gender discrimination has evolved and now appears in different forms, it nonetheless remains a characteristic feature of academe, and women academics continue to pay a disproportionate price.— Florence A. Hamrick
NWSA Journal
[Glazer-Raymo] blends a life history approach with the current statistical results of large research studies.Community College Journal of Research and Practice
I highly recommend this book. It is useful for everyone in higher education, particularly for women who may find the information and stories resonating with their own lives. The author successfully deconstructs higher education using a feminist perspective and provides suggestions for future action.Gender and Society
An insightful and critical analysis of the status of women in higher education during the past 25 years.— Carol J. Auster
Planning for Higher Education
Shattering the Myths is an unsettling book for women and should be the same for men. In essence, little has changed in the last 30 years to substantively improve the status of women in higher education and other professions or the cultural underpinnings that would make status advancement possible... Well researched.
— Susan R. Griffith
Book Details
Published
May 24, 1999
Publisher
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Pages
237
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780801861208