Challenging Knowledge Sex And Power

Author : Julie E. Mills,Suzanne Franzway,Judith Gill,Rhonda Sharp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135011611

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Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power by Julie E. Mills,Suzanne Franzway,Judith Gill,Rhonda Sharp Pdf

Women in the developed world expect to work in the labour force over the course of their lives. On finishing school more girls are entering universities and undertaking professional training for careers than ever before. Males and females enter many high status professions in roughly equal numbers. However, engineering stands out as a profession that remains obstinately male dominated. Despite efforts to change, little progress has been made in attracting and retaining women in engineering. This book analyses the outcomes of a decade-long investigation into this phenomenon, framed by two questions: Why are there so few women in engineering? And why is this so difficult to change? The study includes data from two major surveys, accounts from female engineers in a range of locations and engineering fields, and case studies of three large engineering corporations. The authors explore the history and politics of several organisations related to women in engineering, and conclude with an analysis of a range of campaigns that have been waged to address the issue of women’s minority status in engineering. Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power will be of great interest to students of feminist economics, and is also relevant to researchers in women’s studies and engineering education.

Author : Julie E. Mills,Suzanne Franzway,Judith Gill,Rhonda Sharp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135011604

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Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power by Julie E. Mills,Suzanne Franzway,Judith Gill,Rhonda Sharp Pdf

Women in the developed world expect to work in the labour force over the course of their lives. On finishing school more girls are entering universities and undertaking professional training for careers than ever before. Males and females enter many high status professions in roughly equal numbers. However, engineering stands out as a profession that remains obstinately male dominated. Despite efforts to change, little progress has been made in attracting and retaining women in engineering. This book analyses the outcomes of a decade-long investigation into this phenomenon, framed by two questions: Why are there so few women in engineering? And why is this so difficult to change? The study includes data from two major surveys, accounts from female engineers in a range of locations and engineering fields, and case studies of three large engineering corporations. The authors explore the history and politics of several organisations related to women in engineering, and conclude with an analysis of a range of campaigns that have been waged to address the issue of women’s minority status in engineering. Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power will be of great interest to students of feminist economics, and is also relevant to researchers in women’s studies and engineering education.

Author : Gwyn Campbell,Elizabeth Elbourne
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821444900

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Sex, Power, and Slavery by Gwyn Campbell,Elizabeth Elbourne Pdf

Sexual exploitation was and is a critical feature of enslavement. Across many different societies, slaves were considered to own neither their bodies nor their children, even if many struggled to resist. At the same time, paradoxes abound: for example, in some societies to bear the children of a master was a potential route to manumission for some women. Sex, Power, and Slavery is the first history of slavery and bondage to take sexuality seriously. Twenty-six authors from diverse scholarly backgrounds look at the vexed, traumatic intersections of the histories of slavery and of sexuality. They argue that such intersections mattered profoundly and, indeed, that slavery cannot be understood without adequate attention to sexuality. Sex, Power, and Slavery brings into conversation historians of the slave trade, art historians, and scholars of childhood and contemporary sex trafficking. The book merges work on the Atlantic world and the Indian Ocean world and enables rich comparisons and parallels between these diverse areas. Contributors: David Brion Davis, Martin Klein, Richard Hellie, Abdul Sheriff, Griet Vankeerberghen, E. Ann McDougall, Matthew S. Hopper, Marie Rodet, George La Rue, Ulrike Schmieder, Tara Iniss, Mariana Candido, James Francis Warren, Johanna Ransmeier, Roseline Uyanga with Marie-Luise Ermisch, Francesca Ann Louise Mitchell, Shigeru Sato, Gabeba Baderoon, Charmaine Nelson, Ana Lucia Araujo, Brian Lewis, Ronaldo Vainfas, Salah Trabelsi, Joost Coté, Sandra Evers, and Subho Basu

Author : Michael Randle
Publisher : University of Bradford
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113474618

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Challenge to Nonviolence by Michael Randle Pdf

Author : David S. Dockery
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110160566

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The Challenge of Postmodernism by David S. Dockery Pdf

Learn how to reach a new generation in a rapidly changing world with the unchanging gospel.

Author : Robert Rhoads
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994-10-21
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015033255020

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Coming Out in College by Robert Rhoads Pdf

In this book, the author examines the experiences of gay and bisexual college students as they struggle to form a sense of identity.

Author : Sharan B. Merriam,Bradley C. Courtenay,Ronald M. Cervero
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-10
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015063271749

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Global Issues and Adult Education by Sharan B. Merriam,Bradley C. Courtenay,Ronald M. Cervero Pdf

Global Issues and Adult Educationbrings together seven years of cutting-edge research and analysis from the Cyril O. Houle Scholars in Adult and Continuing Education. These emerging leaders in the field investigate the importance of adult education in responding to the challenges of global issues. The book is divided into five sections, each of which examines one overarching topic—globalization and the market economy, marginalized populations, environment and health, community empowerment, and lifelong learning and educational systems. Each section begins with an introduction that provides a framework for understanding the overarching issues and summarizes the chapters in the section.

Author : Gerard Delanty
Publisher : Open University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X004522301

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Challenging Knowledge by Gerard Delanty Pdf

"For far too long, we have waited for a book that recorded the ideas of the modern university. Now, in Gerard Delanty's new book, we have it. Delanty has faithfully set out the views of the key thinkers and, in the process, has emerged with an idea of the university that is his. We are in his debt." Professor Ronald Barnett, University of London "Gerard Delanty is one of the most productive and thought-provoking social theorists currently writing in the UK. He brings to his work a sophisticated and impressively cosmopolitan vision. Here he turns his attention to higher education, bringing incisive analysis and a surprising optimism as regards the future of the university. This is a book which will stimulate all thinking people - especially those trying to come to terms with mass higher education and its tribulations." Professor Frank Webster, University of Birmingham "For too long social theory, the sociology of knowledge and studies in higher education have mutually ignored each other. Gerard Delanty, founding editor of the European Journal of Social Theory, was just the right person to bring them into dialogue. Indeed, 'dialogue' and 'communication' are his watchwords for revamping the institutional mission of the university." Professor Steve Fuller, University of Warwick Drawing from current debates in social theory about the changing nature of knowledge, this book offers the most comprehensive sociological theory of the university that has yet appeared. The famous philosophical conceptions of the university from the Enlightenment to postmodern thought are discussed along with the major writings in modern social theory on the university, such as those of Weber, Parsons, Habermas, Gadamer, Lyotard and Bourdieu. In this far reaching contribution to the sociology of knowledge, Delanty views the university as a key institution of modernity and as the site where knowledge, culture and society interconnect. He assesses the question of the crisis of the university with respect to issues such as globalization, the information age, the nation state, academic capitalism, cultural politics and changing relationships between research and teaching. Arguing against the notion of the demise of the university, his argument is that in the knowledge society of today a new identity for the university is emerging based on communication and new conceptions of citizenship. It will be essential reading for those interested in changing relationships between modernity, knowledge, higher education and the future of the university.

Author : Audre Lorde
Publisher : Crossing Press
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X000847083

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Uses of the Erotic by Audre Lorde Pdf

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1980-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780394739540

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Power/Knowledge by Michel Foucault Pdf

Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them. Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent -- and terrifying -- portrait of society that he was patiently compiling. For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives" Foucault's investigations of prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, cities, lodgings, families, and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time -- and, as this book proves, one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds.

Author : Malin Ah-King
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319019783

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Challenging Popular Myths of Sex, Gender and Biology by Malin Ah-King Pdf

This edited volume challenges popular notions of sex, gender and biology and features international, trans-disciplinary research. The book begins with an exploration of supposedly ‘natural’ sexual differences, then looks at research in evolutionary biology and examines topics such as gender stereotypes in humans. The first chapters explore important questions: What are the fundamental sex differences? How do genes and hormones influence an individual’s sex? Subsequent chapters concern topics including: sex stereotypes in the field of sexual conflict, how the focus on genes in evolutionary biology disregards other means of inheritance, and the development of Darwin's theory of sex differences. The last three chapters look at humans, discussing: an interdisciplinary approach to the evolution of sex differences in body height, biological versus social constructive perspectives on the gendering of voices and nature-culture arguments in the current political debate on paternity leave in Norway.

Author : Sara Ahmed
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478022336

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Complaint! by Sara Ahmed Pdf

In Complaint! Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made complaints about harassment, bullying, and unequal working conditions at universities, Ahmed explores the gap between what is supposed to happen when complaints are made and what actually happens. To make complaints within institutions is to learn how they work and for whom they work: complaint as feminist pedagogy. Ahmed explores how complaints are made behind closed doors and how doors are often closed on those who complain. To open these doors---to get complaints through, keep them going, or keep them alive---Ahmed emphasizes, requires forming new kinds of collectives. This book offers a systematic analysis of the methods used to stop complaints and a powerful and poetic meditation on what complaints can be used to do. Following a long lineage of Black feminist and feminist of color critiques of the university, Ahmed delivers a timely consideration of how institutional change becomes possible and why it is necessary.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132838462

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The HIV/AIDS Challenge in Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Clive M. Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Psychosexual disorders
ISBN : UOM:39015006045408

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Challenges in Sexual Science by Clive M. Davis Pdf

Author : Juana M. Baumgartner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015033972707

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Challenged Manliness by Juana M. Baumgartner Pdf