Gender and University Teaching: A Negotiated Difference (SUNY series in Gender and Society) - Softcover

Statham, Anne; Richardson, Laurel; Cook, Judith A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791407047 ISBN 13: 9780791407042

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1991

Synopsis

This book examines university teaching from several perspectives: What male and female professors do in the classroom, their perceptions and feelings about teaching, and how students respond. Data were gathered by observing professors in their classrooms, doing selected unstructured interviews, and soliciting evaluations/feedback from their students. This triangulation of data provides a richness of information and insight into the process of university teaching.

In addition to providing useful feedback to professors and administrators, this study integrates several social psychological approaches to gender with more recent feminist formulations. The findings support recently developed perspectives which argue that gender is a constantly created social phenomenon, not one cast securely in the concrete of social structure.

About this title

About the Author

Anne Statham is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, and co-editor of The Worth of Women's Work: A Qualitative Synthesis also published by SUNY Press. Laurel Richardson is Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University. Judith A. Cook is Director of the Thresholds Research Institute.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791407047
• ISBN 13: 9780791407042
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 202