University and College Women's Centers

A Journey Toward Equity
Herausgeber: Davie, Sharon L.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Women's centers in universities and colleges in the United States are flourishing as they transform individuals and institutions, providing education that combines the academic and activist, and develop leadership that is rooted in collaboration. This handbook provides insights from women's center directors at institutions across the country on how best to build a women's center that can improve the quality of women's experiences in college. The best centers aid universities and colleges in responding to particularly difficult challenges in higher education related to gender. Practical information is included on specific programs, providing an overview of successful centers. The institutional environments examined are diverse, ranging from research universities to community colleges, from large state-supported land grant institutions to small private liberal arts colleges. Chapters focusing on the structural issues of creating and transforming a center explore how to create crucial components of women's centers, such as leadership development programs, distinguished artists and scholars series, information and referral services for non-traditional students, women-centered counseling services, resource libraries, publications, and internship programs that involve both academic and experiential learning. Other chapters focus on social issues and the intransigent and wide-ranging challenges facing centers, including for example, sexual harassment, racial divisions among students, the climate for women in the sciences, and the need to build a stronger sense of intellectual community outside the classroom. The directors of women's centers around the country respond to these and other problems, and provide an overview of some of the best practices related to responding to a number of very difficult challenges in higher education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 546
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1030g
• ISBN-13: 9780313291296
• ISBN-10: 0313291292
• Artikelnr.: 22143841

Autorenporträt

SHARON L. DAVIE is Director of the Women's Center at the University of Virginia./e

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction A Journey Toward Equity by Sharon Davie Building a
Center Why Have a Women's Center? Education, Transformation, Leadership by
Sharon Davie Starting a Women's Center by Charlotte Kunkel Building a
Women's Center at Spelman College by Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Kimberly
Wallace Sanders Shifting Ground: Women's Centers and the Process of Change
by Beth Willinger Uncovering What's There: Fundraising in Women's Centers
by Donna Plasket How Do We Know How Well We're Doing? Evaluating Women's
Centers by Diane Goldsmith Programming: A Window on the World Barbie Can't
Do Math and It's Okay, Because She's a Girl: Women's Centers and Gender
Equity in Math and Science by Alice Miller Violence Against Women: Women's
Centers Respond by Claire Kaplan, et al. Women's Centers Responding to
Racism by Elena Marie DiLapi and Gloria M. Gay Out of the Closet and Into
the Center: Women's Centers Serve Lesbians and Bisexual Women by Beth
Firestein Information, Counseling, and Advocacy: Strategies for Survival
Empowering Ourselves and Each Other: Counseling Services for Women at the
College and University Women's Center by Beth Firestein Uneasy
Juxtaposition Within Virginia Tech Culture: The Women's Center's Role in
Enforcing the New Sexual Harassment Policy by Donna Lisker The Response to
Sexual Harassment Claims in One Women's Resource Center by Mary Childers
The New Face of the Academy: Women's Centers and the Non-Traditional Woman
Student by Beth Firestein Collaborations Forging Unlikely Alliances--The
Women's Center and the Locker Room: A Case Study by Donna Lisker Women's
Centers and Women's Studies: The Case for Coexistence and Beyond by Kathryn
Brooks, Sabrina Chapman, and Flora McMartin The Power of the Pen:
Publicity, Libraries, Publication Image at the Center: Visibility and
Publicity by Giavanna Munafo Libraries at the Center by Candace Rosovsky
Speaking in the Circle: Women's Center Publications and the Politics of
Experience by Rebecca Hyman Conclusion Drawing New Maps by Sharon Davie
Appendices Selected Bibliography Index