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Women Scholars, Social Science Expertise, And The State, Mary Ann Dzuback
Women Scholars, Social Science Expertise, And The State, Mary Ann Dzuback
Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Research
Building on scholarship on academic women and the (gendered) institutional constraints they faced, this article explores different trajectories in the careers of academic women economists in the United States, and their efforts to pursue research, establish their authority and influence public policy. It argues that, despite the obstacles, such women were still able to use their new knowledge to influence the development of the welfare state. This study provides new insights into women’s efforts to pursue research and establish their authority, indicative of the interweaving of gendered conceptions of knowledge and research as well as work. It particularly highlights differences …
Gender, Professional Knowledge, And Institutional Power: Women Social Scientists And The Research University, Mary Ann Dzuback
Gender, Professional Knowledge, And Institutional Power: Women Social Scientists And The Research University, Mary Ann Dzuback
Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Research
Although US universities in the early twentieth century offered the promise of meritocratic entry into the academic profession via the graduate training they provided, they did not fulfill that promise for women. Most women who trained for the PhD in social sciences—the focus of this chapter—and who remained in academia could only find positions in colleges. There they pursued scholarship, teaching, and service, the three central activities of the professional scholar, but found themselves restricted by the expectations of large teaching loads, limited resources, and lack of opportunity to train graduate students in these largely teaching institutions. Yet even in …
Berkeley Women Economists, Public Policy, And Civic Sensibility, Mary Ann Dzuback
Berkeley Women Economists, Public Policy, And Civic Sensibility, Mary Ann Dzuback
Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Research
Book chapter "Berkeley Women Economists, Public Policy, and Civic Sensibility," from Civic and Moral Learning in America, edited by Donald Warren and John Patrick, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
From its formative years to the present, advocates of various persuasions have written and spoken about the country's need for moral and civic education. Responding in part to challenges posed by B. Edward McClellan, this book offers research findings on the ideas, people, and contexts that have influenced the acquisition of moral and civic learning in the America.
Apocalyptic Empathy: A Parable Of Postmodern Sentimentality, Rebecca A. Wanzo
Apocalyptic Empathy: A Parable Of Postmodern Sentimentality, Rebecca A. Wanzo
Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Research
This essay analyzes the relationship between feelings and politics in Octavia E. Butler's novels "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents." Comparison of the sentimentalism approach used by the author and Harriet Beecher Stowe in the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; Characteristics of Butler's novels which are categorize as postmodernism; Significance of feeling of the novels' heroines to political activism.
Creative Financing In Social Science: Women Scholars And Early Research, Mary Ann Dzuback
Creative Financing In Social Science: Women Scholars And Early Research, Mary Ann Dzuback
Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Research
Book chapter "Creative Financing in Social Science: Women Scholars and Early Research" from Women and Philanthropy in Education, edited by Andrea Walton, published by Indiana University Press.
Gender And The Politics Of Knowledge, Mary Ann Dzuback
Gender And The Politics Of Knowledge, Mary Ann Dzuback
Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Research
Contentious public debates about women's rational and moral capacity circulated during the European Enlightenment at the same time that science was emerging as a dominant mode of inquiry. As historian Karen Offen argues in European Feminisms, these debates preoccupied both men and women intellectuals of the middling and upper classes and represented a pivotal moment in the three-century campaign to rearticulate a politics of knowledge proclaiming women as deserving as men of formal schooling at all levels. Disputes about women's capabilities emerged in the context of efforts to redefine the rights and privileges of men, of male intellectuals to reassert …
Professionalism, Higher Education, And American Culture: Burton J. Bledstein's The Culture Of Professionalism, Mary Ann Dzuback
Professionalism, Higher Education, And American Culture: Burton J. Bledstein's The Culture Of Professionalism, Mary Ann Dzuback
Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Research
Burton Bledstein classed his book The Culture of Professionalism with the work of the giants in American academik history. He suggested that his theory of the culture of professionalism ranked in significance with Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis, Charles A. Beard's industrialization theories, and Perry Miller's analysis of Puritanism. Bledstein's fresh historical perspective on higher education and his skepticism regarding professional authority no doubt were shaped by his experiences at elite public and private institutions, the University of California at Los Angeles (B.A., 1959) and Princeton (Ph.D., 1967). He has spent his whole professional life at one public institution, the …
Women And Social Research At Bryn Mawr College, 1915-1940, Mary Ann Dzuback
Women And Social Research At Bryn Mawr College, 1915-1940, Mary Ann Dzuback
Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Research
In 1911 M. Carey Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr College, faced a golden opportunity. An alumna of the college had died suddenly, leaving Bryn Mawr its largest gift since Joseph Wright Taylor's initial endowment for the establishment of the college. Emma Carola Woerishoffer's unrestricted donation provided Thomas unaccustomed freedom to expand Bryn Mawr's curriculum. In 1915 Thomas used a large portion of the bequest to establish the Graduate Department of Social Economy and Social Research for the training and certification of social workers and for the master's and doctoral education of social researchers. Bryn Mawr's department and program were unusual, …