Product Description: This study, first published in 1993, traces the path of women toward intellectual emancipation from eighteenth-century precedents, through the hard-won access to college education in the nineteenth-century, to the triumphs of the early 1900s...read more

Product Description: A practical guide to prevention of and response to sexual assault on college campuses, this invaluable resource will help ensure Title IX compliance―and can also help reduce the incidence of these all-too-prevalent events.• Explores the psychological dimensions of campus sexual assault as it affects emotional health, physical health, career development, and self-concept• Integrates three main perspectives often lacking in other books on the topic―legal, social science, and human resource management• Includes first-person experiences through interviews with students, scholars, and attorneys• Offers practical recommendations for preventative approaches as well as recommendations for investigation procedures• Provides sample policies and training program...read more

Product Description: Helicopter parents—the kind that continue to hover even in college—are one of the most ridiculed figures of twenty-first-century parenting, criticized for creating entitled young adults who boomerang back home. But do involved parents really damage their children and burden universities? In this book, sociologist Laura T...read more

Product Description: This edited collection illustrates the way in which women’s experiences of academe could be both contextually diverse but historically and culturally similar. It looks at both the micro (individual women and universities) and macro-level (comparative analyses among regions and countries) within regional, national, trans-national, and international contexts...read more

Product Description: The experience of higher education in the UK has become an increasingly common phenomenon in the 21st century. This book explores the emotional and moral significance of the relationships young women develop at university, such as friends, family and housemates, by using a seven-year qualitative longitudinal study of the transitional period...read more

Product Description: This book explores the contemporary conversation around the 'missing women at the top' across UK society through in-depth interviews with the (hitherto) silent voices of women vice chancellors.

Product Description: This book provides valuable insights into the situation of women in distance education around the world. A wide variety of evidence from different countries supports the conclusion that open and distance learning has the potential to provide equal opportunities in higher and continuing education and that these are currently being missed...read more

As she recovers from amnesia, Sara Alexander tries to get to know her husband and begins to fear that he is keeping a secret from her

Product Description: Theory/Theatre: An Introduction provides a unique and engaging introduction to literary theory as it relates to theatre and performance. Mark Fortier lucidly examines current theoretical approaches, from semiotics, poststructuralism, to cultural materialism, postcolonial studies and feminist theory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Walking on the Grass brings to life women’s experiences during their doctoral study and the experiences of women who supervise doctoral students. Sensations, reflections, and imaginations emerge through memories, histories, and different ways of narrating academic journeys...read more

Product Description: This volume offers readers a comprehensive means to understanding glass ceiling effects in higher education. Each chapter approaches the glass ceiling from a different perspective, providing compellingarguments that truly highlight the importance and usefulness of collecting data on this topic...read more

Product Description: A recognized expert in diversity and founder of DiversityMBAPrep.com illustrates how women in an MBA program can leverage the graduate school experience to catapult their professional careers.• Outlines the four channels that women can use to maximize their business school experience • Reveals the four styles of communication for success in class • Provides practical strategies and tactics for effective relationship and contact management • Offers tools and insights for gaining greater self-awareness and creating a personal brand • Reveals the importance of leveraging the 4C's―classroom, community, career, and clubs...read more

Product Description: A struggle arose over who would succeed Mary Emma Woolley as president of Mount Holyoke College in 1937. Over her 36-year tenure, Woolley had transformed Mount Holyoke into an elite women's college in which leadership in the administration and faculty was almost exclusively female...read more

Product Description: Leadership in universities is physically, intellectually and emotionally demanding work. It involves multiple and complex tasks and responsibilities such as staff management, strategic management, operational planning, financial and resources management, policy development, quality assurance processes, improving student outcomes, and engaging with community and the professions/industry...read more

Product Description: This ground-breaking collection features the diverse voices, experiences, and scholarship of cross-cultural women of American Indian, Asian American, Black/African American and Hispanic descent at various levels of academe, actively engaged in the advancement of marginalized groups in the U...read more

Product Description: One third of the Japanese female workforce are 'office ladies' and their training takes place in the many women's junior colleges. Office ladies are low-wage, low-status secretaries who have little or no job security.Brian J. McVeigh draws on his experience as a teacher at one such institution to explore the cultural and social processes used to promote 'femininity' in Japanese women...read more

Product Description: Tackling the topics of feminism, women’s studies, and the transformation of knowledge, Transforming Knowledge: essays tell the story of Jean O'Barr's struggle to change both knowledge and structures on a university campus over four decades...read more

Product Description: In the popular imagination, American women during the time between the end of World War II and the 1960s—the era of the so-called “feminine mystique”—were ultraconservative and passive. College Women in the Nuclear Age takes a fresh look at these women, showing them actively searching for their place in the world while engaging with the larger intellectual and political movements of the times...read more

Product Description: Women earn nearly half of all new PhDs in Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Why, then, do they occupy a disproportionate number of the junior-level university positions while men occupy 80 percent of the more prestigious jobs? In Academic Careers and the Gender Gap, Maureen Baker draws on candid interviews with male and female scholars, previous research, and her own thirty-eight-year academic career to explain the reasons behind this inequality...read more

Product Description: This volume analyzes how higher education responses to sociopolitical and economic influences affect gender equality at the nation-state and university levels in the European Union and the United States.