Changing Education: Women as Radicals and Conservators(SUNY series, Feminist Theory in Education)

Table of Contents:
Foreword Introduction Joyce Antler and Sari Knopp Biklen Part I: The Educated Woman: Challenges and Visions 1. Educating Women Students for the Future Nannerl O. Keohane 2. The Contradiction of the Educated Woman Jane Roland Martin Part II: Mothers, Teachers, Children, and Change 3. "A Vocation from on High": Kindergartning as an Occupation for American Women Barbara Beatty 4. Women Educating Women: The Child Study Association as Women's Culture Roberta Wollons 5. Black Women's Education in the South: The Dual Burdens of Sex and Race Elizabeth L. Ihle Part III: Informal Contexts of Women's Education 6. Losing Birth: The Erosion of Women's Control Over and Knowledge About Birth, 1650--1900 Janet Carlisle Bogdan 7. Women Journalist and the Women's Page of the Jewish Daily Forward: A Case Study of Informal Education for Immigrant Woman Maxine Schwartz Seller 8. Taking Our Maternal Bodies Back: Our Bodies, Ourselves and the Boston Women's Health Book Collective Robbie Pfeufer Kahn Part IV: Patterns of Women's Lives After College 9. Education, Work, Family, and Public Commitment in the Lives of Radcliffe Alumnae, 1883--1928 Barbara Miller Solomon, with Patricia M. Nolan 10. The Impact of Higher Education upon Career and Family Choices: Simmons College Alumnae, 1906--1926 Kathleen Dunn 11. Race and College Differences in Life Patterns of Educated Women, 1934--1982 Janet Z. Giele and Mary Gilfus Part V. Feminist Teaching in Theory and Practice 12. Valuing Diversity: Teaching about Sexual Preference in a Radical/Conserving Curriculum Laurie Crumpacker and Eleanor M. Vander Haegen 13. You've Got to Stay There and Fight: Sex Equity, Schooling, and Work Kathleen Weiler Part VI: Gender, Professionalism, and Social Change 14. Weeding Women Out of "Woman's True Profession": The Effects of the Reforms on Teaching and Teachers Sara Freedman 15. Black Women, Interpersonal Support, and Institutional Change Diane S. Pollard 16. Visions and Competencies: An Educational Agenda for Exploring Ethical and Intellectual Dimensions of Decision-Making and Conflict Negotiation Nona P. Lyons 17. Shaping the Change: The Need for a New Culture in Higher Education Margaret A. McKenna Notes Contributors Index

Review :
"By combining history, theory, philosophy, case studies and monographs with broader issues, Changing Education shows how educational experience and knowledge are deeply gendered. One of its strengths-indeed the excitement of women's studies in general-is its breadth and interdisciplinary nature. It pays attention to such issues in feminist theory andwomen's studies as women's culture and the sameness versus difference debate; at the same time it provides a wealth of information and new material that is not available elsewhere." - Susan Ware, New York University "It highlights gender as a cultural phenomenon, showing that women's experience in education has been shaped by gender-specific stereotypes and concepts. At the same time, the essays show how women used gender categories to their own advantage to create new lines of work (such as kindergarten teaching and child study activity) or to overcome societal prejudice by way of collective action (such as the Boston Women's Health Collective). "It makes an important contribution to the debate about women's culture versus women's politics, showing the significance of each; e.g., the women's page of the Jewish Daily Foreword as a vehicle for women's (traditional) culture and contemporary committed feminism. I think you have a winner here." - Ann J. Lane, Colgate University