Academic Pathfinders: Knowledge Creation and Feminist Scholarship

by Patricia J. Gumport and Greenwood

Book Overview

From the 1960s to the 1980s, a range of academic possibilities for women developed, as their career histories and intellectual biographies reveal. Some women sought to generate a new knowledge specialty in their disciplines, often explicitly defying admonishments that the subject matter was an oxymoron. Others pursued academic paths that disregarded these new opportunities and developments. Together their accounts portray how feminist scholarship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313320969
• ISBN13: 9780313320965
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.3"