Double Jeopardy: Addressing Gender Equity in Special Education(SUNY series, The Social Context of Education)

Enables teachers and other school personnel working with students with disabilities to provide a gender equitable educational experience.

Table of Contents:
Contributors Foreword Michelle Fine Acknowledgments Introduction Harilyn Rousso and Michael L. Wehmeyer SECTION 1. Gender and Disability 1. Beyond Pedestals: The Lives of Girls and Women with Disabilities Adrienne Asche, with Harilyn Rousso and Taran Jefferies 2. Won't You Know All of Me? Recognizing the Confluence of Disability, Gender, and Ethnicity Eric Jolly SECTION II. Gender Issues in the Education of All Students 3. Gender Equity in Education: Change and Challenge Katherine Hanson and Susan J. Smith 4. Title IX: What Does It Mean for Teachers? Melissa Keyes 5. She Bakes and He Builds: Gender Bias in the Curriculum Susan Shaffer and Linda Shevitz 6. Can She Really Do Science? Gender Disparities in Math and Science Education Ellen Wahl 7. Squeaky Wheels versus Invisibility: Gender Bias in Teacher-Student Interactions Dolores A. Grayson 8. Stopping Sexual Harasssment in Schools Eleanor Linn and Harilyn Rousso 9. Schools Fail Boys Too: Exposing the Con of Traditional Masculinity Craig Flood 10. Teaching as though Both Genders Count: Guidelines for Designing Nonsexist Inclusive Curricula Theresa Mickey McCormick 11. Uncovering Bias in the Classroom: A Personal Journey Maryann Wickett SECTION III. Gender Issues in the Education of Students with Disabilitites 12. Research in Gender Bias in Special Education Services Michael L. Wehmeyer and Michelle Schwartz 13. Gender Equity Issues in the Vocational and Transition Services and Employment Outcomes Experienced by Young Women with Disabilities Bonnie Doren and Michael Benz 14. Nothing to Do after School: More of an Issue for Girls Merle Froschl, Harilyn Rousso, and Ellen Rubin 15. What Do Frida Kahlo, Wilma Mankiller, and Harriet Tubman Have in Common? Providing Role Models for Girls with (and without) Disabilities Harilyn Rousso 16. The Living Out Loud Program: Building Resiliency in Adolescent Girls with Disabilities Nancy Ferreyra and Estelle Eskenazi SECTION IV. Summary and Future Directions 17. Addressing Gender Equity in Special Education Services: An Agenda for the Twenty-first Century Michael L. Wehmeyer and Harilyn Rousso Index

About the Author :
Harilyn Rousso is Executive Director of Disabilities Unlimited Consulting Services. She is the author of Disabled, Female, and Proud!: Stories of Ten Women with Disabilities, with Susan Gushee O'Malley and Mary Severance. Michael L. Wehmeyer is Research Associate Professor and Director, Beach Center on Families and Disability, University of Kansas. He is the coauthor, with Martin Agran and Carolyn Hughes, of Teaching Self-Determination to Students with Disabilities: Basic Skills for Successful Transition.

Review :
"This book is unique in that it focuses on gender equity and disability equity with additional important attention to race, age, and economic issues that contribute to multiple types of inequitable educational treatments and outcomes." - Susan Shurberg Klein, editor of Sex Equity and Sexuality in Education