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Contradictions in Women’s Education: Traditionalism, Careerism, and Community at a Single-Sex Collegereviewed by Athena Perrakis - 2004 Title: Contradictions in Women’s Education: Traditionalism, Careerism, and Community at a Single-Sex College Author(s): Barbara J. Bank and Harriet M. Yelon Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 0807743631, Pages: 184, Year: 2003 Search for book at Amazon.com Plus ça change, plus c’est la même
chose. Indeed, in higher education, the more things
change, the more things tend to remain the same. Among those
‘things’ that has hardly changed over the last two
centuries is the debate about gender in higher education and
whether or not the process of earning a college or university
degree is the same for men and women. In Contradictions in
Women’s Education, Barbara Bank sheds light on the many
tensions and controversies that characterize discussions of
women’s higher education. She argues that many women
model their educational careers after men, yet find that they are
neither welcomed into nor adequately trained for careers men
traditionally pursue. Caught between paradigms of gender
traditionalism and academic careerism, women struggle to find a
supportive environment within which to pursue their degrees.
By raising important questions about the role of community or
social networks for female undergraduates, Bank explores how one
cohort of female students at a small women’s college
negotiated the contradictory imperatives of... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Athena Perrakis
University of Southern California E-mail Author ATHENA PERRAKIS is the co-author of several articles on remedial education and college retention. She teaches Composition and Leadership at the University of Southern California, and is also the Director of the Writing Center at USC.
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