Academic pathfinders : knowledge creation and feminist scholarship /
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| Author / Creator: | Gumport, Patricia J. |
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| Imprint: | Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 199 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Greenwood studies in higher education, 1531-8087 Greenwood studies in higher education, |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11126069 |
| Summary: | From the 1960s to the 1980s, a range of academic possibilities for women developed, as their career histories and intellectual biographies reveal. Some women sought to generate a new knowledge specialty in their disciplines, often explicitly defying admonishments that the subject matter was an oxymoron. Others pursued academic paths that disregarded these new opportunities and developments. Together their accounts portray how feminist scholarship emerged and was facilitated by historically specific conditions: a critical mass of like-minded women, a national political movement, an abundance of financial support for doctoral candidates, a tolerance from established faculty for students to pursue the margins of disciplinary scholarship, and an organizational capacity to add new academic categories for courses, programs, academic positions, and extra-departmental groups. That historical era has since been supplanted by feminist infighting and backlash, as well as more cost-conscious academic management practices, which have altered the academic landscape for knowledge creation.Analyzing the accounts of academic women during this era yields a conceptual framework for understanding how new knowledge is created on multiple levels--through personal reflection on life experiences, disciplinary legacies, local organizational contexts, and wider societal expectations. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 199 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-191) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0313011044 9780313011047 0313320969 9780313320965 9786610468706 6610468702 |
| ISSN: | 1531-8087 |