Description |
viii, 199 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
I. Back to the future? : hopes frustrated or fulfilled? Revisiting the fin de siècle : the threat of the educated woman / Alison Mackinnon -- "Why are we standing still?" : reflections from history / Inga Elgqvist-Saltzmann -- Mapping Canadian women's teaching work : challenging the stereotypes / Alison Prentice. II. Feminist strategies for change. Education for change : action research for increased gender equality / Hildur Ve -- Fear of "disorder"? : resistance to and fear of female advantage / Britt-Marie Berge -- Dis/ease : discourses in Australian health and physical education / Robin Burns -- Education : a site of desire and threat for Australian girls / Victoria Foster -- Who benefits from schooling? : equality issues in Britain / Gaby Weiner with Madeleine Arnot and Miriam David -- "Us guys in suits are back" : women, educational work and the market economy in Canada / Rebecca Priegert Coulter -- Is it really worthwhile? : women chemists and physicists in Sweden / Sylvia Benckert and Else-Marie Staberg -- Women's education, career and family in China in an intergenerational perspective / Grace Mak -- Doppler effects : female frequencies in higher education / Kerstin W. Shands. III. Towards the 21st century. Constructing and deconstructing "girls" as a category of concern / Lyn Yates -- On the (im)possibility of being impertinent, contentious, feminist and feminine / Kajsa Ohrlander -- Naming male advantage : a feminist theorist looks to the future / Joan Eveline |
Notes |
A selection of papers from a meeting of over 30 feminist educators and theorists held in northern Sweden in the spring of 1995 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Donated by Professor Ian Davey |
Subject |
Feminism and education -- Congresses.
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Feminism and education.
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Women -- Education -- Congresses.
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Women -- Education.
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Feminism.
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Women -- education.
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Author |
Elgqvist-Saltzman, Inga, 1929-
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Mackinnon, Alison, 1942-
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Prentice, Alison L.
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LC no. |
98203730 |
ISBN |
0750706562 |
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0750706570 |
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