Whose University Is It, Anyway?
Power and Privilege on Gendered Terrain
- Publisher
- Canadian Scholars' Press Inc.
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2008
- Category
- Higher, Women's Studies, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894549752
- Publish Date
- Oct 2008
- List Price
- $28.95
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Description
Whose University Is It, Anyway? paints a dynamic portrait of what goes on behind the scenes at today's Canadian universities. In compelling accounts, the contributors discuss how equity and gender shape their experiences as they explore the realities they face as professors, teaching assistants, students, contingent faculty, tenured faculty and administrative staff. This is a timely and important contribution.
About the authors
Anne Wagner, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and cross-appointed to Child and Family Studies at Nipissing University. Her areas of research focus on gender, race and (higher) education, critical pedagogies and violence against women.
Sandra Acker, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, University of Toronto, whose research focuses on gender and education, higher education and teachers' work.
Kimine Mayuzumi is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, University of Toronto, with research interests in women in higher education, transnational feminist theory and Indigenous knowledges.
Editorial Reviews
"Whose University Is It, Anyway? brings together essays that not only inform but also inspire. They describe a range of ways in which diversity is now experienced and interpreted in Canadian higher education, and discuss how the social justice goals are increasingly undermined by the corporatization of universities. Yet this analysis is not unduly pessimistic, but points to the political spaces that can still be found for resistance and reform."— “Fazal Rizvi, Professor of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign