WOMEN STUDIES (THE LAST FEMINIST WAVE)

Gender and Education, 2013

Journal of feminist scholarship, 2011

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne …, 1985

This paper briefly describes the historical development of feminist approaches to anglophone sociology within the overall context of feminist scholarship by identifying four distinct but overlapping stages of development. Salient issues in feminist analyses and contributions of feminist theory to various sub-areas of sociology and to sociology in general are noted. Finally, some current epistemological considerations in feminist scholarship are briefly discussed.'

2017

2014. Ms. Yousafzai's book (2013), I am Malala, sheds light on issues of gender and education at a global level. In particular, her book informs readers about the challenges that young women living in patriarchal, traditional, and socially conservative societies face in terms of acquiring education. On the surface, Ms. Yousafzai's powerful message causes readers to consider the significant discrepancies that exist with respect to gender and education between various societies, whether they are traditional, repressive, moderate, progressive, enlightened, or a combination of classifications. But appearances can be deceiving. In western societies, where gender issues are ostensibly viewed as having been resolved, the term postfeminist is employed upon occasion to characterize a discourse of "unambiguous female success, where celebrations of ' presumptive' gender equity are taken as proof that meritocratic principles for attaining bourgeois success have worked" (Walkerdine & Ringrose, 2006, p. 33). Careful analysis reveals, however, that in most contemporary societies, gender and education discrepancies remain noticeable concerns. In 2005, Harvard University President Larry Summers attributed the under-representation of female scientists at elite universities to deficiencies in the innate abilities of women (Hemel, 2005). Summers' remarks drew strong popular criticism and eventually he resigned from his position, but questions raised by his comments remained. How could the head of one of the most elite universities in the World question women's intellectual abilities in the field of science? Gender disparities of course have not been limited to education. Men continue to dominate the majority of political offices, technology and weaponry, and worldwide men's earned incomes are approximately 180% of women's (Connell, 2006, p. 27). In the Fortune 500 companies, just 4.6% of CEOs are women (Catalyst, 2015: Weiler, 2014). Moreover, women comprise only 10% of aerospace engineers (American Federation of Labor, [AFL], 2013). Thus, a gender gap by occupation continue and a wage gap persists that translates into significant differences in earnings over the course of a lifetime. After the 2014 congressional elections, just 19% of the United States Congress were women (Center for American Women and Politics, 2015; Weiler, 2014). Thus, women remain a minority in the U.S. political process making women less likely to be depicted in social studies curriculum and instruction. Feminist Scholarship and Social Studies Because women often are not at the forefront of the political, military, and business arenas, feminist scholarship in the realm of social studies education is correspondingly paltry, Indeed, research that employs gender and/or feminism as a theoretical framework in social studies education continues to reside on the edges. This phenomenon is evident from my review of recent gender and feminist scholarship in social studies education.

Ucla Historical Journal, 1996

Feminist Studies, 2001

Journal of Gender Studies, 2016

In this introductory article we provide a contextual theoretical framework of feminist debates and movements through the lens of the Journal of Gender Studies over the course of the past quarter of a century. Attention to the processes by which we become gendered, and the mechanisms and meanings within society whereby it maintains structures of gender inequality, requires attention to the lives of women and men. It also requires that we pay attention to the lives of people who cross such categories or fit uneasily within them. All this can and should be done while retaining a feminist sensibility and sensitivity to the workings of power and privilege in the individual and social articulations of gendered difference, and the putting of knowledge to work to achieve positive change. Here we review the ways in which the Journal has and continues to make critically important contributions to this ongoing project.

DiGeSt (Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies), 1 (1): 41-50., 2014

Feminist Studies, 2023