Policy Discourses, Gender, and Education: Constructing Women's Status

ISBN-13: 9780415886062 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 222 str.

Elizabeth J. Allan;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

Despite over thirty years of activism and legislation to eliminate discrimination, parity has yet to be achieved for women in academe. This book illustrates the methods of policy discourse analysis by describing their use in a study of twenty-one women's commission reports. It is suitable for researchers in policy studies, and higher education.

Recenzje

"Higher education students and faculty who are interested in policy analysis would be well served by reading this book. The concepts of policy discourse analysis are often abstract and loaded with thick vocabulary. Allan makes the work as accessible as possible by providing a nice summary of important concepts and pairing it with specific examples. The book provides a remarkably rich reference source for policy discourse analysis, particularly as it relates to postmodern feminist scholarship."—Review of Higher Education

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Discourse, Power, and Knowledge: The Making of Subject Positions  3. Unthinking Policy: Why Policy Discourse Analysis?  4. Shaping Policy Discourse Analysis: A Hybrid Methodology  5. Doing Policy Discourse Analysis: An Illustration  6. University Women’s Commissions and Women’s Status: An Introduction  7. The Outsider: Policy Discourse Analysis and Women’s Access to Higher Education  8. The Vulnerable Outsider: Policy Discourse Analysis and Women’s Safety on Campus  9. Achieving Women: Shaping the Professional Subject  10. Discourse and Identity Differences: Constructing Women’s Status  11. Unthinking and Re/Thinking: Insights from Policy Discourses of University Women’s Commissions  12. Policy Discourse Analysis: Limits and Possibilities.  Appendix A: University Women’s Commission Official Reports used as Primary Data Sources.  Appendix B: Institutional Contexts of University Women’s Commissions.  Appendix C: Summary of Codes and Subcodes of Policy Discourse Analysis Study of University Women’s Commission Reports

O autorze

Elizabeth J. Allan is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Higher Education at the University of Maine.