Everyday Knowledge and Uncommon Truths Women of the Academy |
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| Author:
| Christian-Smith, Linda
Kellor, Kristine |
| Series title: | The Edge Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8133-3461-5 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1998 |
| Publisher: | Avalon Publishing
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| Imprint: | Westview Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.00 |
Book Description:
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Everyday Knowledge and Uncommon Truths: Women of the Academy is a thirteen chapter volume which draws on the life experience and varied backgrounds of academic women from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The book addresses a variety of issues pertaining to women’s home lives, education, teaching, research, writing, and activism. To provide diverse perspectives on women’s experiences of being and knowing in and outside the academy,...
More Description Everyday Knowledge and Uncommon Truths: Women of the Academy is a thirteen chapter volume which draws on the life experience and varied backgrounds of academic women from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The book addresses a variety of issues pertaining to women’s home lives, education, teaching, research, writing, and activism. To provide diverse perspectives on women’s experiences of being and knowing in and outside the academy, contributors draw on a range of critical approaches derived from feminism, poststructuralism, postmodernism, critical education theory, discourse theory and analysis, narrative inquiry and life histories.